ECLiPSe Integration with VSCode

Question

I have just spent a three hours trying to configure my working environment for VSCode and ECLiPSe (I am new to VSCode and rusty in ECLiPSe) in Windows.

So far

• I have created a task (and a keyboard shortcut) in VSCode to launch TkEclipse (the GUI)

• in TkECLiPSe Tools->TkECLiPSe Preference Editor I set the value of the Initial query called ... (which is the last option) to cd('//C/Users/[current working directory]'), compile([your file]).

but I cannot resize the GUI window to something larger, so I have to do this manually

I know these are small annoyances, but since all new power users will encounter them, it could be useful to document a solution.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Instead of launching a fresh tkeclipse every time you changed your code, I'd suggest to run vscode and tkeclipse in parallel and leaving them both open. You can then just click the Make button in tkeclipse to recompile after saving changes in vscode.

There is currently no way of passing parameters into tkeclipse via the command line. But we could easily add a -f command line option (as the console eclipse has). As of ECLiPSe 7.1, tkeclipse supports a -f FILE command line option to pass an initial source file, and a -e QUERY option to specify a query to be executed on startup.

As for the window size, the best solution would probably be to make tkeclipse remember its size on closure, and restore it on relaunch. If you are just unhappy with the default and want to change it permanently, you could add a line like

wm geometry . 1200x900

at the top of your installation's <ECLIPSEDIR>/lib_tcl/tkeclipse.tcl