rich quick pick

[jrieken]

There are needs for more complex quick pick and asking for input, like do something on focus, validate user input etc. There are:

• user input validation and feedback (Feat.Req.: API: showInputBox() user input validation and feedback #1381)
• handle item focus/blur (How to handle focused items in vscode.window.showQuickPick? #540, quick pick enhancements #1979)
• update items based on input
• have an option to show label and description in two rows
• have an option to include octicons

[jrieken]

Idea is to have in addition to showQuickPick and showInputBox something like createQuickPick():QuickPick which could return something like this:

interface QuickPick {
  show(): void;
  hide(): void;
  items: Item[]|Thenable<Item[]>
  message: string;
  onDidSelectItem: Event<Item>
  onDidFocusItem: Event<Item>
  onDidBlurItem: Event<Item>
  onDidChangeInput: Event<string>
}

[daviwil]

Interesting! cc @dfinke

[dfinke]

Looks good. It'd be nice to be able to customize the dropdown too. The extension install does with readme and install icons.

[alefragnani]

Hi @jrieken . Is it already available in the Insider build?

I tried to use the Extension API Consumption #1881 and Proposal for separating the vscode tools from the vscode API #970 instructions, but it still result in the same API. Maybe I'm doing something wrong in my package.json?

Thanks in advance.