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Build, Program, and Debug MPLAB Projects from the comfort of VS Code
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Microchip Code Configurator / Harmony3 Support #28

Closed timscheuermann closed 2 months ago

timscheuermann commented 2 months ago

There are standalone options of Harmony and MCC available. What about adding those, so the extension can create MCC- / Harmony-generated code by itself and we won't need to run MPLABX for this?

I tried the standalone-versions by myself and it looked pretty promising, unfortunately I have no knowledge on how to implement external tools in an vscode extension.

Look at these links for reference: -> Harmony Standalone (preinstalled with Harmony): https://microchip-mplab-harmony.github.io/mhc/doc/readme_mhc_important_files.html -> MCC Standalone: https://gallery.microchip.com/packages/MCC-Standalone-(Windows)/

callwyat commented 2 months ago

This sounds like an interesting idea! However, I think it is outside of the scope of this extension. I would recommend creating a new extension that was focused on integrating MPLABX Extensions with VSCode. When I started this extension, I too had little to no knowledge to get started, but I was able to find some documentation that gave me the confidence to get going. After that, it just been a lot of googling for things like "VSCode Api command", "NodeJS how to read a file", "Typescript if statement". I hope that you are able to make something amazing!

callwyat commented 2 months ago

It looks like Microchip is planning to make an extension for this! https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-extensions-vs-code