Adding Run and Debug buttons

[mbeps]

Currently, on VSCode the run and debug buttons are combined. This is inconvenient as if there are breakpoints present the program will enter debug mode. I have to rely on key binding which have separate commands for run (will ignore breakpoints) and debug. I tried to add these 2 commands in VSCode Action Buttons but I would get errors. Is there a way of making this work?

    "actionButtons": {
        "defaultColor": "white", // Can also use string color names.
        "loadNpmCommands":false, // Disables automatic generation of actions for npm commands.
        // "reloadButton":"↻", // Custom reload button text or icon (default ↻). null value enables automatic reload on configuration change
        "commands": [
            {
                "name": "Run",
                "color": "green",
                "command": "workbench.action.debug.run"
            },
            {
                "name": "Debug",
                "color": "red",
                "command": "workbench.action.debug.start"
            }
        ]
    }, 

This is the error that I get:

I would assume is that it can only run commands from terminal and not VSCode. If this is the case, how can I make it run commands from VSCode?

[Slurpgoose]

came here to ask this as well. My use case is to run tasks same as I would with keybindings.json.

[
    {
        "key": "cmd+shift+0",
        "command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
        "args": "Run Server"
    }
]

The reason the default behavior does not work for me is I would like to be able to run multiple scripts in a split integrated terminal using a single command

tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "Run Server",
            "dependsOn": [
                "PositionHandler",
                "Strategy Runner",
                "Mock Exchange",
            ]
        },
        {
            "type": "npm",
            "script": "runner",
            "path": "Communications/",
            "label": "Strategy Runner",
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always",
                "clear": false,
                "focus": true,
                "group": "runner"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "npm",
            "script": "mockExchange",
            "path": "Communications/",
            "label": "Mock Exchange",
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always",
                "clear": false,
                "focus": true,
                "group": "runner"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "npm",
            "script": "positionHandler",
            "path": "Communications/",
            "label": "PositionHandler",
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always",
                "focus": true,
                "clear": false,
                "group": "runner"
            }
        }
    ]
}

[makarychev13]

+1

A much needed feature