How to set RobotCode extension root directory?

[AtromixCode]

Hello!

We've recently added robot to our project (yay 🚀), and I'm trying to use RobotCode's integration with VSCode. The current project layout is similar to this (with better naming):

project/
    ├── .git
    └── testing/
        └── robot_project/
            ├── .vscode
            ├── .venv
            ├── test_suites
            └── libraries

The issue is when I set the robotcode.robot.pythonPath to the bellow:

"robotcode.robot.pythonPath": [
        "./libraries"
    ]

and use the 'Run and Debug' or the 'Testing' tab of VS code, it adds project/libraries to the PYTHONPATH instead of project/testing/robot_project/libraries and it puts the results to projects/results rather than the project/testing/robot_project/results.

So my questions is if there is a way to set RobotCode's root directory so that it's all contained in the robot_project directory? Maybe use the workspace as the variable? Rather than adding a longer path in the settings of the project.

Thank you in advance! I'm new to robot and RobotCode so I might have missed something in the documentation

[d-biehl]

No, this option is not available at the moment. However, there is already an enhancement request for it—see issue #287.

As a workaround, instead of opening the "project" folder in VS Code, I recommend opening the "robot_project" folder. This setup should work without any issues.

If you're using Python virtual environments (which I assume you are 😉), keep in mind that VS Code can only automatically detect the virtual environment if the venv folder is located at the root of the project.