Views and more actions button disappears after extension restart

[Annykom]

Three-dot-button (... or Views and more actions) is present in the extension container after opening the IDE or enabling this extension. After executing the command PT Application inspector: Restart the extension restarts and this button disappears. Although right-clicking still allows me to show or hide views.

Three-dot-button appears again if I go to Extensions and click Refresh button.
I couldn't find any other extensions with a view container in the Activity bar and a command like Restart <extension>, so I couldn't figure out if it was a problem with the extension or the IDE.
Attached video shows steps to reproduce.

issue.to.gh.mp4

I use VS Code Version 1.98.2 and Ubuntu 22.04.5.
Please let me know if I should report this as a bug in the VS Code repo. Thank you.

[alefragnani]

Hi @Annykom ,

I think you should report the issue to the PT Application Inspector extension authors, because the issue occurs in a command provided by that extension, and only the extension authors would say exactly what it does under the hood, since its source is not available. If, after their investigation, they understand it is caused by VS Code, they would report the issue to VS Code.

Hope this helps

[Annykom]

Hi @alefragnani
Thank you for your reply!
Maybe you know how can an extension affect the presence or absence of this three-dot-button? I thought there was a list of views in the package.json file, and that is all that is needed for the button with the list of these views to be available. Is there something else?

[alefragnani]

Unfortunately not. This is handled by VS Code itself, not by extensions. Extensions only contribute to those the Activity Bar (the icon you see in the side bar) and the Containers (each panel/view inside) inside.

I suspect the restart command provided by the extension is the culprit. I’m not sure what it does, but since it vanishes the other containers from that ellipsis button, I think it is not correctly resetting the extension to the initial state.I have Activity Bars and Containers/Views s on my extensions, and never needed to recreate them. Instead, I just recreate its content. Sure, each extension has it on needs, so maybe they need to really reset the extension. Maybe the process that they are using is not totally supported, and needs some updates to the VS Code itself. Only a proper investigation by the PT Application Inspector extension team would find the root cause.

Hope this helps