ability to get/set currently selected debug configuration

[zamanzamanli]

Currently, we can run vscode.debug.startDebugging(workspaceFolder, configName) to run the debugger from the extension. Is there a way to change currently selected debug configuration from the extension? Something like vscode.debug.changeCurrentDebugger(workspaceFolder, configName) would be very helpful.

[weinand]

Currently we have no API for this.
What is the exact use case?

[zamanzamanli]

@weinand , There are two use cases I want to accomplish.

1. I have a button which will open the launch configuration using the command workbench.action.debug.configure. I want the cursor to be at the configuration I choose, but the cursor ends up at the configuration selected by a user in the debug window. If I could scroll to the configuration I want by using vscode.commands.executeCommand("workbench.action.debug.configure", "config.name") that would be helpful.

2. We have a custom window for the extension and there we show the last used debug configuration. When a user changes the configuration from that window, I want it to be changed in the actual debug window as well.

[weinand]

@zamanzamanli thanks for the info.

[weinand]

I've changed the title to include API for reading the currently selected debug configuration.

[GordonSmith]

@weinand I would like to see:

• workspace.getDebugLaunchName
• workspace.setDebugLaunchName
• workspace.onDidDebugLaunchNameChange

Since we already can get and modify the actual configurations, this about being notified when the user selects a new one and being able to get / set the current one.

Use Case 1
We have the concept of a "Platform" which has many configurations and when submitting code to it, it can be submitted to: run, compile or debug. Currently we achieve this by having many launch "similar" configurations, but the permutations add up.
So when the user changes launch configuration, it would be good if we were notified so that we could query the server for the list of "queues" and then display that in the status bar (the user can then click to change queue, like they change file type currently).

Use Case 2
For our language it would make sense to remember the launch config used with a specific file and this would simplify the process

[weinand]

@GordonSmith thanks for the input!

[philliphoff]

The vscode-docker extension has a need for this as well. When the user executes the "add Docker-related content to the workspace" command, it currently scaffolds task and debug launch configurations. We'd like to be able to switch the selected debug launch configuration to that new configuration, so that the user can immediately start debugging within a Docker container. (This would also add consistency with our equivalent scaffolding in VS.)

[vscodenpa]

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[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[MihaelIsaev]

We also would like to be able to preselect launch configuration in our platform extension for user convenience.

Since the issue is still Open then it seems this feature is still not implemented? Any progress on this? It's been two years...