Disable Output Window when debugging

[jasc2v8]

Please add "Disable Output Window".
This will prevent the Output Window from opening upon an AHK run error.
The user can always Ctrl+Shift+U to open the output window.
Thank you.

[mark-wiemer]

This shouldn't be too tough to implement, but it's not the highest priority. Just posting an update here as #492 was just opened as a dupe. This is still very possible and in-scope, but with ~40 issues backlogged and a personal vacation coming up, I can't guarantee it'll be solved this month. I'll be working on reordering the backlog found at the AHK++ project if you'd like to see where my priorities lie :)

[mark-wiemer]

Ref microsoft/vscode#105270, but I do plan to fix this in the upcoming release. Everything's working now, just trying to add automated tests. They're the first of their kind, so it's taking some time :)

[mark-wiemer]

OK, further testing shows that even removing any application code to open the debug console view still results on it opening the very first time a debug session begins. Closing the debug console view and debugging again does not reopen the view. Reopening this to see if I can identify the exact issue here, but it'll have to be good enough for a while given the longstanding issues with VS Code itself and the lack of documentation and API support around these features, from what I've been able to find.

My guess right now is that it's related to the initializeRequest or something similar.

[andyfangaf]

Will this prevent the output window from popping up by another conflict in an extension?

[mark-wiemer]

@andyfangaf no, it shouldn't affect the behavior of other extensions. I'm still researching, but it looks like creating a debug session for the first time is the only case where the output window currently pops up (AHK++ 6.1.1).

I need to rebuild the debugger for advanced use-cases anyway, so I'll be testing a very basic debugger to see if behavior like this is just built-in to VS Code or can be avoided. Stay tuned :)