MircoPad for Progress Developer Studio

[JamesBowen]

Something I’ve wanted to build for a long time is a custom MicroPad for Progress Developer Studio—and today I finally finished it.

Progress Developer Studio has a wide range of shortcut keys that I can never quite remember, so I built this MicroPad to make them easily accessible. The project uses a combination of different AI tools for programming the Pro Micro and developing a web interface to configure the 4×4 keypad.

GitHub: GitHub - Jimbobnz/MicroPad

 

[jdpjamesp]

Great job! And today we're moving everyone to VS Code

 

[balta]

Great job! And today we're moving everyone to VS Code

Any tips in do that move?

Can you share your config file? I have some doubts in Database Connection [DB] (The DBs are in Linux)

 

[peterjudge]

Any tips in do that move?

Can you share your config file? I have some doubts in Database Connection [DB] (The DBs are in Linux)

Make sure you are using the correct extension (there are older ones that are still in the marketplace). The one published by Riverside Software is the one. You are also going to want to be on the pre-releases - Gilles releases there fairly regularly, bug fixes, new features, etc. It's very stable, despite being a pre-release.

The project readme contains a link to a program that can set up the project configuration file (there's just one, not eleventy billion).

The DB connection strings are plain old CONNECT-style strings (because that's what they are). So if you can connect from PDSOE you should be able to connect from VS Code. And if you want to develop on Linux you can, VS Code supports tunneling to other hosts.

The biggest changes I've seen are getting used to VSCode : muscle memory is a powerful thing, and figuring out where stuff is takes time.