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February 3, 2023 · Developer Tools, VS Code Extension

VS Code extensions: LSP 1.9.0 / Robocorp Code 1.1.0 / Warning regarding VSCode 1.75.0

Note: VSCode 1.75.0 has a major issue related to handling keybindings. Please keep to VSCode 1.74.3 until VSCode 1.75.1 is available.

Robot Framework Language Server

New features

  • Code action: Surround with try..except.

  • Code action: Surround with try..except..finally.

  • Interactive Console: (Robot Framework 4 onwards): When a single keyword call is executed and it has a non-None return, its return value is printed.

  • Interactive Console: Typing a variable in the Interactive Console shows that variable. #871

  • Improve IF/WHILE/Run Keyword If snippet completions to make it a bit clearer that python expressions are expected.

  • Building the model of the flow explorer no longer times out and a progress dialog is shown while building it.

  • robot.libraries.blacklist can be used to blacklist libraries which should never appear in code-completion.

  • Deprecated libraries:

    • robot.libraries.deprecated can be used to mark libraries as deprecated.
    • Keywords from deprecated libraries will not appear in the auto-import code-completion (so, they'll only be available if the Library is added to the Settings).
    • Libraries which start with *DEPRECATED* in its doc are also considered deprecated.
    • Keywords from libraries marked as deprecated will be shown as deprecated.

  • Requesting completions right after Libraries without any additional name will show completions for all known (pre-loaded) libraries.

  • Completions for variables are shown without having to enter $ nor ${.

Bugfixes

  • Properly report about undefined variable in RETURN. #865

  • References to variables used in Evaluate arguments are now properly collected.

  • Don't show completion for the variable being currently defined in variable assign.

Robocorp Code

  • If the TEMP folder being used in the environment is removed the extension properly deals with it.

  • Inspector upgrades:

    • Browser Actions Recorder: Improvements in performance and other bug fixes.
    • Browser Actions Recorder: Auto-scroll for the keyword list.
    • Browser Actions Recorder: Code Editor no longer readonly (note: still indifferent to user changes as it will always update).
    • Browser Locator: Fixed buttons not displaying if no matches available.
    • Improved approach to close the browser and app window.