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v2.17.1 2018-08-04

v2.17.0 2018-08-02

Inspect Flutter Widget

When debugging a Flutter application a new command Flutter: Inspect Widget appears in the command palette which allows you to tap on a widget on your device/emulator to highlight it and jump directly to the source code where it was constructed.

Note: In v2.17.1 dart.trackWidgetCreation - which powers this feature - was disabled by default while a bug is investigated. You can enable this but may find issues when hot reloading. flutter clean after enabling the setting may resolve these issues. This setting will be re-enabled by default once these issues are fixed.

Testing Improvements

CodeLens links now appear above tests and test groups that allow you to quickly run/debug an individual test or group without running the whole suite.

Several other improvements have been made to the test runner:

Flutter Screenshots

@timsneath and @Ramalus contributed a Flutter: Save Screenshot command to save screenshots from your device/emulator. The first time you use it in a session you’ll be prompted for a folder to save to (you can suppress this with the dart.flutterScreenshotPath setting) and shown a notification to quickly open the folder. This command can be bound to a key in your VS Code key bindings the same as any other command.

Signature Help

Signature help is now available to quickly look up arguments to functions without having to hover over them.

Signature help can be invoked with Ctrl+Shift+Space (macOS: Cmd+Shift+Space) or if the dart.triggerSignatureHelpAutomatically setting is enabled, will appear automatically when you type ( or ,.

This feature relies on a new feature in the Dart SDK. At the time of release this is available in the Flutter master channel but not yet on dev/beta channels.

Other Changes

Upstream Issues

Some feature requests and fixes require new features and fixes in upstream projects like VS Code and LSP which use counts of 👍s on those issues to help gauge demand. The Dart-Code website now lists some of the most significant upstream issues with a description of the feature/fix they would enable. Please consider reviewing this list and adding your 👍 to any GitHub issues relevant to features you’d like to see!

https://dartcode.org/upstream-issues/