The view of the file is implemented through the Webview API, and the document model is a custom RootFileDocument class which we will keep simple by implementing a CustomReadonlyEditorProvider, the RootFileEditorProvider. The custom editor requires two parts: a view and a document model. In the case of the ROOT File Viewer extension, the Custom Editor API is leveraged to handle ROOT Files.
Moreover, its functionality can easily be extended thanks to the Extension API. It runs on any operating system, supports many languages, has built-in support for Git, and much more. VS Code is a free, open source, and very popular code editor developed by Microsoft with TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript. or running code -install-extension albertopdrf.root-file-viewer from the command lineĪnd if you want to know more, just keep reading! Visual Studio Code.or searching ROOT File Viewer directly within VS Code’s Extensions view ( Ctrl + Shift + X or click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar).Launching VS Code’s Quick Open ( Ctrl + P), pasting ext install albertopdrf.root-file-viewer, and pressing enter.If you just want to install the extension already and have a good time opening all your ROOT Files, you can do so by: I think that a GIF will serve us better this time:Īfter seeing this, who would still want to open a terminal, launch ROOT, and create a TBrowser instead? And I haven’t even mentioned yet that for this extension to work no local installation of ROOT is required! The good news is that that isn’t the case any longer! Let me present ROOT File Viewer, an extension for Visual Studio Code that makes use of the wonderful JavaScript ROOT to display ROOT Files directly within VS Code, with just a click!īefore diving into the details, let us just quickly see the extension in action. View ROOT Files directly in VS Code! (11 March 2021)Īs a heavy user of ROOT, many of the results of my data analysis are saved in ROOT Files and, honestly, I always found it a bit annoying to glance over them.
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