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zimonitrome / vscode-color-blocks

VSCode extension for coloring ranges of comments.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zimonitrome.color-blocks
MIT License
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You could go down in VSCode version ... and maybe extend to FBP? #7

Open j2l opened 2 years ago

j2l commented 2 years ago

Not an issue but a potential increase in your users.

Latest VSCode deb on Ubuntu is v. 1.63.2 In the vsix archive, I changed the 1.65 to 1.63 in extension.vsixmanifest and package.json (2 refs), and installed the ext manually and it works :smile:

Thank you for this great extension, I'm a visual person and having colored blocks helps me a lot.

If only, we could link the same color with a wire (node-red like), and blocks auto-organize. This way we could get flow based programming (FBP) from traditional coding: image

zimonitrome commented 2 years ago

Latest VSCode deb on Ubuntu is v. 1.63.2 In the vsix archive, I changed the 1.65 to 1.63 in extension.vsixmanifest and package.json (2 refs), and installed the ext manually and it works

Thanks for the information! I had thought about lowering the version number but had not tested anything yet. I will decrease it ASAP!

Thank you for this great extension, I'm a visual person and having colored blocks helps me a lot.

Thanks! And I feel the same, hence why I created the extension :)

If only, we could link the same color with a wire (node-red like), and blocks auto-organize. This way we could get flow based programming (FBP) from traditional coding:

I like the idea of FBP. This extension is still far from perfect or done. But maybe fully FBP is a bit out of scope? I will look into what features could be extended.

j2l commented 2 years ago

Great!

Here's what I'm doing right now with your plugin, it helps me a lot: Anvil Extended Code Design We need more colors since 000, 111, 999, FFF are the same grey and should be black, blackish, grey, white :smile:

Yeah, full FBP is not needed when you can code, FBP visualization would be far enough.

I don't know why VSCode can't keep the colors when I copy-paste while the rest (colored text) is present as html when pasting. For now, I make screenshots.

zimonitrome commented 2 years ago

Wow I like that usage!

The setting color-blocks.standardizeColorBrightness.enabled controls the shading. You can disable it to use any colors. You can also use 6 digit hex colors instead of 3 digits (#ab1267 instead of #a16).

j2l commented 2 years ago

Great, thank you!