Are there any items required in the context menu of the variable view?

[zero-plusplus]

Starting with version 1.49 of vscode, can now customize the items in the context menu of the variable view.

If there are any items you would like to see added, please comment.

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Plan 1: Copy Raw Value

Convert as follows.

displayed value:

"line 1`nline 2"

raw value:

line 1
line 2

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Plan 2: Copy as Binary, Copy as Decimal, Copy as Hex

Convert and copy to binary/decimal/hexadecimal respectively.
This may not be used very often, but will be implemented if requested.

[SAbboushi]

I need to display value in both decimal and hex very often, usually because AHK displays decimal values and spy tools usually display hwnd in hex

[SAbboushi]

If there's a way to display decimal and hex together on hover, that would be my preference, something like:
1,234,567 (0x12 D687)

[zero-plusplus]

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an API available to override the hover behavior.

[zero-plusplus]

There was no need to override the hover process to solve this problem.
A simple solution would be to add hexadecimal values to the variables.

However, it needs to be optional so as not to confuse beginners in programming.
To do this, I need to come up with an option name that is easy to understand.
Do you have any ideas?

I have the following draft in idea.

<launch.json>
...
"numberFormat": "{decimal} (0x{hex})"
...

[SAbboushi]

1. Does this mean the default will be "numberFormat": "{decimal}"?
2. Will there be a binary option?
3. Any formatting options e.g. commas for decimal, spacing for hex/decimal?

[zero-plusplus]

I didn't explain it well enough.

1. Does this mean the default will be "numberFormat": "{decimal}"?

Yes, it is. The default is "{decimal}".

2. Will there be a binary option?

The four possible values are binary, decimal, hex, and scientificNotation.

3. Any formatting options e.g. commas for decimal, spacing for hex/decimal?

At the moment, I am thinking that the only above four can be specified.

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There is one major problem with this, and that is that context menus such as Copy as Binary will no longer work.

[SAbboushi]

Sometimes I need conversion to/from binary and would be nice to have option to display binary with and without spaces

[zero-plusplus]

I'm not familiar with binary, but is a space something like 0 1 0 1?

[SAbboushi]

Yes, but I would prefer spaces on the byte boundaries:
Binary without formatting: 101001111101011000001000111100110
Binary with formatting (i.e. spaces): 1 0100 1111 1010 1100 0001 0001 1110 0110

[zero-plusplus]

Thanks for the explanation.
Does it make any sense that the first 1 in the example with spaces is not 4 digits?

[SAbboushi]

To me it does. I might use leading zeros when aligning numbers on top of each other:
0001 1110 0110
0101 1110 0110

To me, the spaces are a visual aid like commas:
1,234
Commas break numbers into 3 digit segments. We don't generally write it 001,234

[zero-plusplus]

Thank you, I understand.

I'll follow the Windows calculator and implement it as four digits with zeros, like 0001 0101.

[zero-plusplus]

To simplify my work, I decided to rely on Javascript's Number.toString for the conversion process.
Therefore, I will forgo padding the beginning with zeros and adding spaces this time.

[SAbboushi]

Windows Calculator seems to ignore leading zeros when formating octal; but includes leading zeros for binary, so I find there is no "standard":

[zero-plusplus]

@SAbboushi
I implemented the context menu in 1.10.0.

See here for details.

[SAbboushi]

Great!!