VSCode Plugin for Easy Graphics Engine

A VSCode plugin to help the configuration of ege. Enjoy it!

Features

• Generate EGE Projects with single click
• 31+ Demo Templates: Choose from a variety of demo templates when creating a new project
  • Basic: Hello World
  • Games: Snake, Tetris, Gomoku, Typing Practice
  • Graphics: Star animations, Clock, Lines effects, Fireworks
  • Algorithms: A* Pathfinding, Sorting visualization, K-Means clustering, Game of Life
  • Physics: Ball collision, Boids simulation, Wave effects
  • Fractals: Julia Set, Mandelbrot Set
  • Image Processing: Loading, Rotation, Transformations
  • Camera: Camera basics, Wave effects
• Build and run single cpp files with EGE support.(graphics.h)
• Add EGE CMake Project Template for C/C++ source.
• Support MacOS/Linux (By mingw-w64 and wine)
• Internationalization (i18n): Automatic language detection based on VS Code's display language
  • English (default)
  • 中文 (Chinese) - automatically selected when VS Code's display language is Chinese
• Generate project templates based on the EGE source code. The source mode will be periodically updated to the latest EGE code, making it easier to discover issues.

Deps

• Windows: Visual Studio 2017/2019/2022/2026+
• MacOS: mingw-w64, wine-stable (wine64)
  • You can install via brew install mingw-w64 wine-stable
• Linux: mingw-w64, wine64
  • You can install via apt install mingw-w64 wine64 (Ubuntu/Debian)

Install

• Search ege in the Visual Studio Store.
• Get it at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wysaid.ege

Extension Settings

You can define some options like below:

{
    /// The url to get latest version of EGE (default: https://xege.org/download/ege-latest-version)
    "ege.update_url": "", 
    "ege.showEditorContextMenu": true, // Show 'ege' in editor context menu
    "ege.explorerContextMenu": true, // Show 'ege' in explorer context menu
    "ege.downloadFromOfficial": false // Download EGE from official website instead of using the builtin version
}

Configuration Details

• ege.downloadFromOfficial: By default, the plugin uses the builtin EGE library (tested and stable). If you want to download the latest version from the official website (https://xege.org), set this option to true. Note that the official download may not always be stable or compatible with the plugin.

MileStone

• Install:

  • Support ege downloading & install.

• Compiler:

  • Support vs2019 and later
  • Support MingW + GCC

• Solution:

  • Support single file compile & run
  • Support Visual Studio template generation.
  • Support CMake template generation.

• Platform:

  • Windows 10 and later
  • MacOS via WINE