This directory contains VS Code configuration for the Checkbox project:

• launch.json
• settings.json

Precondition: Setup Python virtual environment described in CONTRIBUTING.md

To set up the Python interpreter, follow these steps:

1. Open the command palette using Ctrl + Shift + P.
2. Type Python: Select Interpreter and press Enter.
3. Select Python from the virtual environment. For example, if you name your virtual environment venv and place it in the checkbox-ng directory, the path should be ./checkbox-ng/venv/bin/python.
4. (Optional) Open the command palette again, type Developer: Reload Window, and press Enter. This ensures that the changes are applied.

Tests are discovered in Test Explorer. You can run and debug them. Currently, only tests from checkbox-ng are loaded in the Test Explorer. Alternatively, you can run tests directly from the VS Code terminal:

pytest ./checkbox-ng        # run tests from checkbox-ng
pytest ./checkbox-support   # run tests from checkbox-support

The code can be run and debugged using the VS Code Debugger. In the Debugger, the Start Debugging dropdown offers these options:

1. Debug checkbox-cli runs checkbox-cli in the integrated terminal with --clear-cache and --clear-old-sessions parameters.
2. Debug checkbox-cli with args prompts you to enter parameters and uses them to run checkbox-cli.