Updates to Project Outline View

[sinemakinci1]

Brief Issue Summary

We are planning updates to the Project Outline View in the CMake Side Bar to make it easier to locate your targets, especially in larger projects. This ticket is to garner feedback from the community. Our current proposal is to make a flat view of Targets similar to the CMake Targets View in Visual Studio, with their respective CMakeLists.txt files underneath.

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[gcampbell-msft]

#3684

[bradphelan]

Filtering and bookmarking

We have 100's of CMakeTargets. It doesn't matter if it's a flat list or a tree but there needs to be a way to search and bookmark.

Reveal in Project Outline

Right clicking on a CMakeLists.txt or any file associated with a cmake target should make available a CMake: Reveal in project outline similar to

Compile single file

Don't use the compilecommand.json to compile single files as it breaks on windows if the command line is too long. I use ninja build which manages too long command lines via response file and have a custom task to do this.

{
    "type": "shell",
    "label": "CMake: Build Current File",
    "windows": {
        "command": "cmake",
        "args": [
            "--build",
            "${command:cmake.buildDirectory}",
            "--config",
            "${command:cmake.buildType}",
            "--target",
            "${file}^"
        ]
    },
    "options": {
        "cwd": "${command:cmake.buildDirectory}"
    },
    "group": "build",
    "problemMatcher": [
        "$msCompile"
    ],
    "detail": "Build the currently selected file with incredibuild",
    "presentation": {
        "echo": true,
        "reveal": "always",
        "focus": true,
        "panel": "shared",
        "showReuseMessage": true,
        "clear": false
    }
}

it would be good if the default Compile Active File task worked this way in the project outline and the right click on file tab.

Launching under Incredibuild

I have a custom task to launch the current target under incredibuild.

{
	"type": "shell",
	"label": "CMake-IB: Build Current Target",
	"windows": {
		"command": "ibconsole",
		"args": [
			"/command='cmake --build ${command:cmake.buildDirectory} --config ${command:cmake.buildType} --target ${command:cmake.buildTargetName}  '",
			"/profile='${workspaceFolder}\\cmake\\ccache\\ib.xml'"
		]
	},
	"options": {
		"cwd": "${command:cmake.buildDirectory}"
	},
	"group": "build",
	"problemMatcher": [
		"$msCompile"
	],
	"detail": "Build the currently selected cmake target with incredibuild",
	"presentation": {
		"echo": true,
		"reveal": "always",
		"focus": false,
		"panel": "shared",
		"showReuseMessage": true,
		"clear": true
	}
}

essentially it requires launching cmake under the ibconsole process. Maybe there is a way to do this already but it is not clear how to do this. It should be possible that right the click build action

runs cmake under ibconsole.exe.

[astamp-zebra]

After using the latest version of the plugin (1.18.41) with the flattened outline view it is much more difficult to locate specific targets.
In our codebase we have around 100 subprojects that are added from the root CMakeLists.txt with add_subdirectory. Each subdirectory's CMakeLists.txt has a main target, a unit test target, and a lint target.

Is there consideration for an option to restore the hierarchical view for projects where the directory structure organizes the targets?