This extension was made with beginner programmers in mind
The goal of this project is to create an extension that helps the setup of a c/c++ workflow
My vision for now is to provide an easy-to-use project manager and a way to setup c/c++ building by the press of a button
Main features
There are 2 main parts to this extension:
1: Building
A "Play" button is added in the top-right corner of the editor (Editor Actions) (1)
When pressed, it looks for a compiler either in the path environment variable, or in the usual install locations of CodeBlocks
If an installed compiler was not found, the user is prompted to either choose a different installed compiler, or if they want to let the extension download it
When the download completes, the user is prompted to choose the desired extract location of the compiler
Upon extraction, its added to the path environmental variable
After all this, a VSCode restart is needed in order for the shells to update
If everything went without errors, you're good to go! :)
This part is confirmed to be working on Linux and Windows, with any shell
2: Project managing
A "project icon" is added to the left sidebar, from which the projects can be managed (3)
The first input field (4) is for the name of a new project, and the second one (5) is for the root location of the projects (every created project will be created there)
The "Create project" button (6) creates a folder (recursively) with the name and location from the previous inputs and creates a "main.cpp" sample file (2)
Below that mini-form is a list of the projects in the root project directory (these are looked recursively as well, meaning that if a directory only has more directories inside, and no files, then the extension looks into those directories as well) in no particular order (7)
There is a search field to filter the projects by path (8)
This part is now working on both Windows and Linux
Inspiration
At school, we were introduced to programming with the help of CodeBlocks, which is a fine program, but it's a bit unstable and ugly for my uses.
That's why I moved to VSCode and used a small bash script for project managing
In the spirit of learning, I thought to make a small extension with the same features as that script, but visually and integrated into VSCode
Thank you for the attention, and I hope you like this extension!
