Matflo Plugin for Visual Studio Code

This extension provides syntax highlighting and code snippets for plugins

Features

• Syntax highlighting for plugin files (*.plugin)
• Syntax highlighting of Matflo keywords for c files
• Plugin Segment completion
• Snippets for plugin-point insertions in plugin, C and shell files
• Snippets for frequently used constructs

Code Snippet - defining plugin point in plugin file

Code Snippet - inserting plugin point in C file

Workspace Configuration for Matflo C Development

The extension includes pre-configured workspace settings for Matflo C development. These configurations include:

• Settings: File exclusions, search filters, and workspace-specific options
• Tasks: Build tasks for make, ut_build, and other build systems
• Launch configurations: GDB debugging setups for binaries, APIs, and core dumps
• C/C++ properties: Include paths and compiler settings
• Extension recommendations: Suggested extensions for Matflo development

Installing Workspace Configuration

To install the workspace configuration files:

1. Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P)
2. Type and select: "Matflo: Install Workspace Configuration"
3. Choose whether to overwrite existing files or skip them

The configuration files will be installed to your workspace's .vscode directory. You can then customize them according to your project's needs.

Note: The configuration files are templates based on typical Matflo C projects. You may need to adjust paths and settings for your specific project structure.

Build Task Buttons

The extension adds convenient build buttons to the status bar (bottom left):

• � Make Fresh - Runs the make fresh task
• 🔧 Make - Runs the make task
• 🌐 Make API - Runs the make API task

IntelliSense Management: The extension automatically disables C/C++ IntelliSense during any build task execution to improve build performance, then re-enables it when the build completes. This works whether you trigger builds from:

• Status bar buttons
• Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P → Tasks: Run Task)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Any other method

Coming Soon

• Code Intellisense in plugin files

For Contributors

Release

This starts a git-flow release branch with recommended semver and bumps version number and updates changelog

npm run release
# do the testing and when ready finish the release branch with
#git flow release finish <branch-name>