No Longer Shows in Activity Bar

[Greeley]

VSCode latest. MacOS.

I haven't seen todo tree in my activity bar in months, It's not on the status bar, using command+shift+p and selecting any of the todo tree commands doesn't do anything. Installing older versions doesn't make it show up either.

[Gruntfuggly]

What version of the extension do you have installed?

If you go to View -> Open View... and then select TODOs from the list, does it reveal the view somewhere?

[Gruntfuggly]

Any luck finding the view?

[ClemensJakob]

Same here ( VSC + MacOS). View nowhere to be found.

[danielthedifficult]

I'm having the same issue.

Mac OS, VSC 1.76.2 TODO Tree: v0.0.224 - 2023-02-09

Interesting fact: The activity bar indictators show when I'm in the extension page.

But it is gone when I close the window. Note, there is a spinning status indicator "Activating Extensions" in the activity bar just after it disappears. Then, that status indicator finishes and the TODO indicators are gone.

I enabled debug output, I just see it searching the repo and finding files/matches, no error messages. The last messages logged are:

12:21:49.706 Found 95 items
12:21:49.706 Applying globs to 95 items...
12:21:49.713 Remaining items: 95

I'd rather not paste the whole log with the filepaths and matching code, but if I can provide other information, I'm happy to.

A potentially unrelated thing... I recently added a .md file, and it's not highlighting the TODO unless I prefix with `// TODO'

[Gruntfuggly]

Have either of you tried what I suggested in the second comment? Is the view listed in the menu?

[ClemensJakob]

It was not listed. But reinstalling helped 👍

[danielthedifficult]

Hi @Gruntfuggly I admit I looked around to find the View menu and couldn't figure it out (admittedly after a long day..)

I'll look again.

FWIW, I did try reinstalling and that didn't fix it.

If you mean the side bar (when clicking on your app's ICON), yes, that works and shows the tree of TODOs, etc.

[Gruntfuggly]

The side bar is the activity bar. Can you please explain what the actual issue is?

[danielthedifficult]

I'm sorry, I understand now I've been using the wrong terminology.

According to the labeling in this image, I'm missing the indicators of Hack, Todo, etc. in the blue "side bar" at the bottom left side of the screen.

[Gruntfuggly]

Ah OK, so what you have labelled as Side Bar there is just part of the status bar (but left aligned).

There are several options for what is displayed in the status bar - have a look in the README.md at todo-tree.general.statusBar.

[danielthedifficult]

Thank you Nigel, I had already looked in the preferences and it was set to "current file" but not showing anything, even in a file with todos.

However, I changed it to "top three" and it's working now, and still works when toggled back to "current file".

Thanks!

[Gruntfuggly]

Going to close this now as I think everybody's issue has been resolved :smile: