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I'm trying to use Visual Studio Code (VSC) as IDE for my QGIS plugins with the Python extension, but something doesn't work as expected. I've been reading about the PyCharm config from Gary S. but I couln't apply it to VSC.
Should I use an .env file? What should I set in the settings.json? How to call batch files when VSC starts?
We didn't want to use a script to open our workspace, so we finally found out how to configure Visual Studio Code through the settings.json file: https://github.com/isogeo/isogeo-plugin-qgis/blob/master/.vscode/settings.json
The requirement is to have QGIS LTR installed with OSGeo4W on the computer. We automated this step with the command-line: https://gist.github.com/Guts/6303dc5eb941eb24be3e27609cd46985
Create an empty file named visual_studio_code_for_qgis.bat
Paste this:
@echo off
path %PATH%;C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.2\bin
path %PATH%;C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.2\apps\grass\grass-7.4.1\lib
path %PATH%;C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.2\apps\Qt5\bin
path %PATH%;C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.2\apps\Python36\Scripts
set PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.2\apps\qgis\python
set PYTHONHOME=C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.2\apps\Python36
start "VisualStudioCode for QGIS" /B "C:\Users\Zoran\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" %*
Update paths if necessary.
Run the visual_studio_code_for_qgis.bat
More details can be found here: http://gis-expert.com/wp/2018/10/15/how-to-setup-qgis-3-and-visual-studio-code-plugin-development-windows/
--user option is preferred). For example, PyQt5 is already included into QGIS installation (try to import it into the python-qgis interpreter launched from OSGeo4W Shell).
– Guts
Jan 17 '19 at 6:15
Here I explain how configure Visual Studio Code for running alone scripts in Python that executes funcions of Qgis.
In the file "Visual_Studio_Code_Qgis\Work_Space_Configuration.code-workspace" is my file configuration that set the envoirment of operatig system.
With this configuration if you run your aplication from Visual Studio code there will be no errors with Python and Qgis.
For use this information: 1.- Goto to the configuration of workspace (Control+) 2.- Select workspace 3.- In right upper square click to Open Configuration Json 4.- Paste my code insight changing Directories.
In my configuration file I have a envoirment, if you don't want or don't have, delete the last lines.
This do the same like file "C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.12\bin\python-qgis.bat".
So if you run this file in CMD, and after that in the same CMD window, you write "set" and enter, you will have a list with the configuration of your system.
Try this batch file for an Osgeo4w QGIS install.
