Vscode-cmake-tools: Configure buttons in the status bar

[mental13]

I use other VSCode extensions that add buttons to the status bar and cmake tools makes it really cluttered.
I would appreciate options to edit this and hide buttons that are redundant for a specific project

• Run CTest
• Make build and debug target the same (one selection for both)
• Use icons for build and debug buttons
• Minimize the name of the current project (instead of Cmake: ProjName: Debug: Ready a simple ProjName: Debug would suffice in most cases)

[leira]

Or we can configure to disable these status bar buttons all together.

[vector-of-bool]

It's been a while...

Some upcoming UI refactors will change the CMake Tools GUI elements.

[vector-of-bool]

The buttons will have some clean up in 1.1, but I expect more clean up in 1.2, so I'm going to leave this open and move the milestone to 1.2

[bobbrow]

VS Code recently added the capability to hide status bar icons from an extension. It's an all-or-nothing toggle, but it should address @leira's comment.

[tanveerbadar]

Can I upvote this 1000x? Kit selection and build mode (debug/release) are the biggest offenders here, eating into already limited available space.

[michaelkollmann]

It'd be very interesting for me as well to customize which buttons are being displayed in the status bar.

I'm using CMake Tools for embedded development and I have to use a different debugger (marus25.cortex-debug) then the native VSCode one. This makes the "Debug" button in the status bare useless for me as I can't use quick debug. So now there is this button down there in the menu bar and I have to tell all my colleagues that they must not click this button. Quiet annoying...

Update:

I now have built my own command bar icons using the gsppvo.vscode-commandbar extension.
This makes it easier to use. Sadly I still rely on the CMake tools commandbar because there is no other way in the UI to set the Variant (Debug / Release) to build.

Is this a feature that is being planned to be add to the Cmake Tools UI?

[bobbrow]

@michaelkollmann, if you are using launch.json to configure debugging because the quick debug button doesn't work, you can actually move the launch.json config into the cmake.debugConfig setting. This allows you to override any of the defaults (e.g. "miDebuggerPath") that you may be needing to change.

[bobbrow]

This issue was addressed in version 1.4 but was never closed. New settings cmake.statusbar.visibility and cmake.statusbar.advanced were added to give you full control over the icons.