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itsenouphoto
Inspiring
November 20, 2022
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Automate selecting the target app in VS Code

  • November 20, 2022
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I'm continuing to get used to VS Code and come across a new question. I tried googling, but several hours of searching didn't get me anywhere near the answer.

 

I set up the ExtendScript Debugger config and it works when I run the script to debug. But before that, every time I open (or reload) VS Code, I need to select target application for launch.json.

Is it possible to automate this somehow?
It's ideal to assign a default application to the workspace, as I've created different workspaces for script projects for Illustrator and Photoshop.

Windows 10, VS Code 1.73.1 (latest)

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Charu Rajput
Charu Rajput
Braniac
November 20, 2022

Did you try the following

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/how-to-edit-quot-launch-json-quot-file-in-vsc-visual-studio-code-to-automatically-run-current-file/m-p/11371532

 

Best regards
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itsenouphotoAuthor
Inspiring
November 20, 2022

Its about a script running. As I said, I configured this stage. But VS Code asks me to select an application to which to apply the launch.json file itself when I start VS Code, before running the script

I have also tried adding targetSpecifier and hostAppSpecifier to the settings in both launch.json and the workspace settings file. But I still don't know how it works very well because I switched to VS Code quite recently

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