Hey Gang - Brand new to the forum, relatively new to UR Robots, but have been working in custom automation for the last 10+ years. Working on my first UR Integration, and according to the folks I'm talking to at UR, a lot of what I want to be able to do programming-wise is going to have to be done at the Script level.

I'm not a fan of programming and/or editing in NotePad - is there a good source code editor out there that works with URScript?

Thanks all!

We use VSCode for editing all of our script.  There is a plugin for text highlighting as well.  We use https://github.com/rckTom/vscode_URScript for that.

How can I add this to my vscode ? Im a programmin noob!

You will need to build the package and then you can install it in VSCode. 

Here are are some instructions for building it. 

@matthewd92

do you use this in Linux? or can it also but used in windows?

Its available for WIndows or Linux from the VSCode website (Its a Microsoft product actually).  Visit https://code.visualstudio.com/download. The plugin that we mentioned in a previous answer is actually now available directly within the extensions store for VSCode and is accessed from within the product.

I actually meant the extension and not the VSCode. but i did get it installed and running(i believe) but correct me if im wrong, but i am getting a error when i try and debug my script within VSC, are we not able to debug that way?

i did see that you guys had that runner code and i tried installing but i had some issues, but i will try again!

If you have any issues please reach out to me at mbush@hirebotics.com and I can either help you or get the right person from our team to help.