Recently intellisense in visual studio code has begun giving me an 'identifier "snprintf" is not defined' error when I call the snprintf funciton. This is using PlatformIO with the ESP8266. This code compiles and runs fine.

baudRate should be read (or have an option to be read) from pio.ini file, config as a separate setting is a bit confusing

Please add a license, I don't have any strong opinion on which one - it could be MIT like VS Code uses.

I think it should be both in package.json and in a file so GitHub can show it correctly.

Thanks for this nice utility. I have mapped ctrl-r to call build, upload, and start monitor. Alas, it looks like it always uses the same (wrong) project to build instead of the 'active' one. How can I fix this?

The platformio command seems to expect entirely other commands than this extension provides. Everything results in an error starting from initialization.

Completely unusable.
Also the serial monitor is very bad, setting the baud rate from settings in json is just crazy. (ESP8266 requires multiple baud rates for uploading and debugging) A separate interface would be much better. I would not use the serial monitor in its current state. (edit I see that one can modify the baud rate also from the platformio.ini file, but still I'd rather take an A,B,C,D,E,F,G option to select from baud rates when opening the serial monitor)
I still don't know how to send commands from the serial interface.
VSCode 1.13.0, installed the platformio core and the PlatformIO IDE extension from extensions.
PlatformIO, version 3.3.1
Windows 10

But otherwise the interface seems really nice.

Closed because I posted in the wrong project, I see that there are 2 forks.

What is the difference between this and the core platformio?
Do you keep in line with the core platformio?
Thanks!

Is it possible to change the baud rate for the serial monitor?

I wonder whether it would be better to add C/C++ extension as an extension dependency. i.e. put below settings into package.json. Installing PlatformIO extension will also install the C/C++ extension.

"extensionDependencies": [
    "ms-vscode.cpptools"
]

There seems no side effect.

Start with an open, empty folder then: Platform.IO IDE 0.7.4 => Install and asks for reload. After reloading it opens PIO Home and there is the Home icon on the left side (that is the only one)

Then, actions "Initialize or update project and I select a platform and it installs it. In the folder now there are some other files (same if I open home and then "Initialize project").
I open the main.cpp and try to build => "No build task to run found" (there are no platform.io icons on the lower status bard besides the home as well...).

VSC, Windows 64bits, 1.18.1

How can I troubleshoot this?

thanks!

The current implementation of addIncludePathToFile(includes) only adds new include paths to the file, it doesn't clean up the old paths. I guess this is to be nice and not risk deleting anything the user may have added manually, but in this case we get all the information we need from PlatformIO, so it is ok to say that this file should not be modified by the user.

I don't know if the C++ extension can handle comments in the c_cpp_properties.json file to warn the user against modifying it, but I have always loved the comment Visual Studio adds to auto generated files: "This code was generated by a tool", see: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tool if you don't understand why that makes me smile.

If you have different board environments in your PIO project (ex. a regular Arduino Uno and an ESP8266 with Arduino framework), then the include paths for the tool chain will be completely different, but both environments will have mostly the same header files with only small differences, so if the user change the default environment in the platformio.ini file and we end up with include paths for both frameworks in c_cpp_properties.json, then there is a risk that the C++ extension will use the wrong, slightly different, header file and drive the user crazy when things doesn't work that way his editor tells him. I have tried that, when it showed me intellisense for snprintf from a Windows Mobile header file while I was working on a ESP8266 Arduino project and they are different, which leads to the next point:

Default for the C++ extension is to keep a cache in the users home folder, which then can have information from the system header files, so we should also set "databaseFilename": "${workspaceRoot}/.vscode/browse.vc.db" to make sure that it only have the include files the list PIO provides. I don't know if that means we should also delete the browse.vc.db* files when updating c_cpp_properties.json.

@sean-mcmanus do you have an opinion about that?

We should also set the defines to the list coming from PIO.

Great little tool. Has substituted my own task.json nearly completely. Could you provide a hint, how to run BUILD and UPLOAD one after the other with one stroke?

Thanks

This ext adds some duplicated buttons that PIO already has, there could be an option or config file to show/hide some of them

This is preventing including library files because this is the location of a required include file.
Steps to reproduce.

1. Open a folder and initialize it for platformio
2. Select the ATMegga2560 board configuration.
3. Create a main.cpp file
4. Add line #include <Arduino.h>
5. Add line #include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
6. Add void setup and void loop callback functions
7. Open c_cpp_properties.json and select the line containing TFT/src and copy it to a new line
8. Add the utility subfolder
9. Close VSCODE
10. Reopen VSCODE
11. Observe in awe as after a few seconds the utility entry removes itself.

In file included from src\main.cpp:2:0:
lib\ST7775/TFT_2_ST7775.h:10:26: fatal error: Adafruit_GFX.h: No such file or directory
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
^

compilation terminated.

1. There is no multi-language display, such as Chinese
2. There is no visual interface and icons, the wizard, pure command operation is very troublesome
3. Arduino IDE project is not compatible with the Arduino IDE project, Arduino IDE can not be opened
4. Functionally unable to completely replace the Arduino IDE

be default it will install under windows's user folder .platformio

i would like to sit under vscode

I have installed C++ extension for VSCode but upon opening project I see the extension does not find plafrom/framework libraries. It would be nice to have support for this extension included here.