Remote Scroll README

Scroll the document via JSON directives through socket connection remotely, the VSCode is a sync-viewport now!

Sometimes you might need a text editor to automatically scrolling the view range synchronically with some corresponding or relevant external data...

Usage

Press <CTRL+F12> to start a server, and connect to the server via telnet or socket programmes, provide a JSON data in the following schema:

{
    "authCode":"",
    "filename":"d:\\docs\\someText中文文件名示例.txt",
    "lineNumber":100
}


// feel free to provide "filename" value in your favorite format, such as:

"/home/user/username/documents/someText.txt"

// or

"d:\\AbC\\dEf/Ghi.txt"

A DEMO WITH PYTHON:

# REMOTE SCROLL PYTHON CLIENT DEMO
import socket
from  json import dumps
from time import sleep

HOST, PORT = 'localhost', 9527
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
    s.connect((HOST, PORT))
    for i in range(1, 10000):
        msg = {
            'filename':'sometext.txt',
            'lineNumber':i,
            'authCode':'123'
        }
        buf = (dumps(msg,ensure_ascii=False,indent=0)).encode('utf-8')+b'\n'
        s.sendall(buf)
        # data = s.recv(1024).decode('utf-8')
        # print('Received', data)
        sleep(1)

Features

1. Scroll an editor with a given filename to a specific line-number via net control;
2. This control mode turns Visual Studio Code a special viewport in some special scenarios;
3. [CTRL+F12] to start a server;
4. [F12] to toggle server pause/resume;

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• RemoteScroll.host: The host address of the remote control server, default = 'localhost'.
• RemoteScroll.port: The tcp/ip port the remote control server listens to, default = 9527.
• RemoteScroll.checkFilename: Whether to check active document file name before scrolling. if no, scroll the current active one.
• RemoteScroll.authCode: A string to identify or authorize connection.
• RemoteScroll.autoForceOpen: If file is not already opened in an editor when the server listens, automatically try to open the file that the client-side requests. Notice this config only effects while "checkFilename" enabled.

Release Notes

1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7

Upgrade package dependencies following the security report of the development robot of vscode.

1.0.4

Upgrade package-lock.json following the security report of the development robot of vscode.

1.0.0

Basically done.

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Enjoy!