AREPL fails in Code 1.23

As of updating Visual Studio Code 1.23 AREPL does not work when selecting some code followed by F1 & AREPL: Open Highlighted code in new AREPL session ?

[Almenon]

Yes, AREPL supports PyQT 😃

Currently it supports a hardcoded list of GUI libraries

[“turtle”, “matplotlib”, “tkinter”, “kivy”, “pyforms”, “PyQt4”, “PyQt5”, “wx”, “pyside”, “plotly”, “ggplot”, “bokeh”]

With the next release I’ll turn that into a setting you can change.

It will work with any GUI library in the list but there’s two things to watch out for:

1. The window will steal your focus whenever it pops up. On windows you can use alt-tab to quickly switch back to VSCode
2. The window might pop up over your code - you should adjust the position of the window so it appears where you want it.

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon
 
class App(QWidget):
 
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.title = 'PyQt5 simple window - pythonspot.com'
        self.left = 900 # adjust these values so popup doesnt appear over your code
        self.top = 100
        self.width = 640
        self.height = 480
        self.initUI()
 
    def initUI(self):
        self.setWindowTitle(self.title)
        self.setGeometry(self.left, self.top, self.width, self.height)
        self.show()

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
ex = App()
app.exec()

As for the AREPL: Open Highlighted code in new AREPL session command, I made it create a new document so you don’t end up with junk temporary files in your directory. Now that I think about it what I could do instead is save the new document to a folder like “%Appdata%\AREPL” so you can save and load your snippets from there. Does that sound better?

[SheepDomination]

I got it working quite well actually 👍
Although, when running AREPL: Open Highlighted code in new AREPL session it would be good if it didn’t create new documents within VSCode and rather wrote to a temporary file of sorts to which I could then load. Especially if experimenting to analyze code snippets etc.

Also can AREPL work with PyQT and the like ?