Visual Studio Code (vscode) for QuickApp development

[jgab 2,169]

New feature: zombie

 

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Will instruct the QA on the HC3 with the deviceId 786 to send all its onAction and UIEvents to the QA running in the emulator - when the emulator is running.

The emulator will ping the HC3 QA every 5s and if the HC3 QA don't get a ping it will revert to it's normal behaviour.

 

The emulated QA in the emulator and the "zombified" QA on the HC3 may have different IDs.

The emulator will make sure that when the emulated QA updates properties and UI views it will also update the HC3 QA.

 

The advantage is that we have a QA on the HC3 that other QAs can interact with but we get all events to the emulator and can debug the code there.

 

It also works with QuickAppChildren "automatically". Emulator created QuickAppChildren will be reflected on the HC3, and when the emulated QA starts up it will create copies of the existing children on the HC3 for the zombie, if any.

 

 

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[jgab 2,169]

Implemented the new switch button. Declaration looks like

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It gets "true" and "false" in event.values[1] and can be set by self:updateView(id,"value","true") or  self:updateView(id,"value","false") 

[petrkl12 214]

On 1/25/2024 at 5:36 PM, jgab said:

New feature: zombie

 

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Will instruct the QA on the HC3 with the deviceId 786 to send all its onAction and UIEvents to the QA running in the emulator - when the emulator is running.

The emulator will ping the HC3 QA every 5s and if the HC3 QA don't get a ping it will revert to it's normal behaviour.

 

The emulated QA in the emulator and the "zombified" QA on the HC3 may have different IDs.

The emulator will make sure that when the emulated QA updates properties and UI views it will also update the HC3 QA.

 

The advantage is that we have a QA on the HC3 that other QAs can interact with but we get all events to the emulator and can debug the code there.

 

It also works with QuickAppChildren "automatically". Emulator created QuickAppChildren will be reflected on the HC3, and when the emulated QA starts up it will create copies of the existing children on the HC3 for the zombie, if any.

 

 

@jgab

I'm trying to migrate to VSCode as there is zombie function now 👍

How to translate this original setting to your new setup in VSCode:

(ID 1008 is real QA in HC3 and I want to have everything to call to (or from) HC3 incl. global vars, QA vars, other QAs, children QAs, ...)

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Edited February 2, 2024 by petrkl12

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13 hours ago, petrkl12 said:

@jgab

I'm trying to migrate to VSCode as there is zombie function now 👍

How to translate this original setting to your new setup in VSCode:

(ID 1008 is real QA in HC3 and I want to have everything to call to (or from) HC3 incl. global vars, QA vars, other QAs, children QAs, ...)

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Zombie is not really there yet.

It's missing the concept of 

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Need to think about how to do that - and not sure if the old way is the way to go.

For the TQAE proxy concept, the proxy was autogenerated by TQAE and the master code was always the code in TQAE.

For zombie model kind of creates a hybrid as we debug the "real" QA running on the HC3 using a copy running in fibemu/TQAE.

 

My thinking was the following workflow

1. We have the real version of the QA on HC3,
2. using a vscode command to download the QA code from the HC3
3. debug version in vscode by temporarily making HC3 QA a zombie
4. when done, use a vscommand to update the HC3 QA with the new code

For this to be really smooth, I'm not sure all pieces are in place yet...

 

For the UI we have kind of 2 situations.

We would like to use the Web QA UI editor for complex UIs...

We would like to use fibemu/TQAEs UI declarations for creating layouts that are not possible in the UI builder (and it's difficult for getting a feeling for the layout - however, the fibemu QA UI we interface is getting quite ok)

 

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1 hour ago, jgab said:

Zombie is not really there yet.

It's missing the concept of 

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Need to think about how to do that - and not sure if the old way is the way to go.

For the TQAE proxy concept, the proxy was autogenerated by TQAE and the master code was always the code in TQAE.

For zombie model kind of creates a hybrid as we debug the "real" QA running on the HC3 using a copy running in fibemu/TQAE.

 

My thinking was the following workflow

1. We have the real version of the QA on HC3,
2. using a vscode command to download the QA code from the HC3
3. debug version in vscode by temporarily making HC3 QA a zombie
4. when done, use a vscommand to update the HC3 QA with the new code

For this to be really smooth, I'm not sure all pieces are in place yet...

 

For the UI we have kind of 2 situations.

We would like to use the Web QA UI editor for complex UIs...

We would like to use fibemu/TQAEs UI declarations for creating layouts that are not possible in the UI builder (and it's difficult for getting a feeling for the layout - however, the fibemu QA UI we interface is getting quite ok)

 

Yes, it could work

For me the old concept of proxy was also OK  and I was able to debug the complex QAs ie. for Philips Hue with a lot of separate QAs and also childern QAs with complex UI works without any issues ...

 

 

Edited February 3, 2024 by petrkl12

[jgab 2,169]

On 2/3/2024 at 11:51 AM, petrkl12 said:

Yes, it could work

For me the old concept of proxy was also OK  and I was able to debug the complex QAs ie. for Philips Hue with a lot of separate QAs and also childern QAs with complex UI works without any issues ...

 

vscode gives a lot of new possibilities that I'm exploring.

Just did a first version of an vscode extension that "mounts" QAs and Scenes as a filesystem in vscode's file explorer.

Try it by installing this extension in the extension view context menu

 

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Run hc3fs.workspaceInit in the command palette.

Autosave is turned off by default and file are synched to the HC3 when explicitly saved.

Here is a video of some of the features...

 

 

An idea is to combine it with the emulator to run the files...

 

Edited February 4, 2024 by jgab

[petrkl12 214]

OK, thanks

but some errors with path. What I should change?

 

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[jgab 2,169]

Ok, it seems like the extension behaves differently outside the extension development environment.

Go to extension settings or go to settings and search for 'hc3fs'

Set the dir to a place where you have a .vscode, typically a workspace folder.

I have set it to "hc3fs.dir": "/Users/jangabrielsson/Documents/dev/HC3fs/hc3fs",

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Anyway, I expect to come out with a 0.0.2 tomorrow as I found some issues when I packaged it.

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@jgab

in this

 

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you should add this step

 

del launch.json

before mklink /H launch.json ..\..\fibemu\.vscode\launch.json

 

 

[petrkl12 214]

 

what should be in local setting in items user and pwd? (for HC3 is clear)

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[petrkl12 214]

9 hours ago, jgab said:

Ok, it seems like the extension behaves differently outside the extension development environment.

Go to extension settings or go to settings and search for 'hc3fs'

Set the dir to a place where you have a .vscode, typically a workspace folder.

I have set it to "hc3fs.dir": "/Users/jangabrielsson/Documents/dev/HC3fs/hc3fs",

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Anyway, I expect to come out with a 0.0.2 tomorrow as I found some issues when I packaged it.

I have tried these paths - but no success - still same error - maybe I dont know how to correctly write absolute path in vscode 

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2 hours ago, petrkl12 said:

I have tried these paths - but no success - still same error - maybe I dont know how to correctly write absolute path in vscode 

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Ok, I removed the dir setting - I don't think it was the right option.

I've linked v0.0.2 in post

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@jgab

still same error even with version 0.0.2

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37 minutes ago, petrkl12 said:

@jgab

still same error even with version 0.0.2

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You need to run the command "hc3fs: Setup Workspace" first, to mount stuff.

If I don't and just run Download fqa I get your error.

Download fqa should be run from the menu in the file explorer.

[petrkl12 214]

yes - I run: 

hc3fs: Setup Workspace

first error - fetch failed

and then error with path

 

Next run of hc3fs: Setup Workspace - only error with path

 

Could you add more debug mesages?

 

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Edited February 4, 2024 by petrkl12

[jgab 2,169]

I linked v0.0.3

You can look in output->HC3 fslog

and you have done the settings for the extension?

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[petrkl12 214]

still same error

sorry, I'm new in VSC where is: output->HC3 fslog

 

Edited February 4, 2024 by petrkl12

[jgab 2,169]

1 minute ago, petrkl12 said:

still same error

sorry, I'm new in VSC where is: output->HC3 fslog

 

Look at the video in my first post how I show the output (in terminal OUTPUT->and then the pop-up that is set on Tasks as defaults

Just now, jgab said:

Look at the video in my first post how I show the output (in terminal OUTPUT->and then the pop-up that is set on Tasks as defaults

So I tried it in WIn11 and it worked. Sometimes Win11 can be tricky with url access rights...

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output - HC3 fslog

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output - Extension host> error

2024-02-04 12:48:38.257 [error] TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'path')

    at HC3.downloadFQA (c:\Users\xxxx\.vscode\extensions\[email protected]\out\hc3.js:297:43)

    at c:\Users\xxxx\.vscode\extensions\[email protected]\out\extension.js:102:13

    at s.h (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:150:175243)

    at s.$executeContributedCommand (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:150:176103)

    at d.S (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:147:5520)

    at d.Q (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:147:5286)

    at d.M (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:147:4376)

    at d.L (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:147:3455)

    at g.value (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:147:2242)

    at r.y (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:80:1902)

    at r.fire (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:80:2119)

    at n.fire (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:105:14073)

    at g.value (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:173:8051)

    at r.y (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:80:1902)

    at r.fire (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:80:2119)

    at n.fire (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:105:14073)

    at MessagePortMain.<anonymous> (c:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\vs\workbench\api\node\extensionHostProcess.js:173:6331)

    at MessagePortMain.emit (node:events:514:28)

    at Object.emit (node:electron/js2c/utility_init:2:2285)