Limiting a commandPallette contribution to a webviewId does not work

[timheuer]

commandPalette with a when condition attaching to a webViewId does not show the command

Scenario: Only want a command to be in the command pallette when a specific webview is active/shown. The below is not working and shows no command.

        {
          "command": "resx-editor.addNewResource",
          "when": "webviewId == 'resx-editor.editor'"
        }

[vscodenpa]

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[mjbvz]

You want either activeWebviewPanelId or activeCustomEditorId depending on your use case

[timheuer]

@mjbvz do you have a snippet on how to access this -- don't see it in the docs

[mjbvz]

Did you try using them?

[timheuer]

Did you try using them?

I don't know how :-) -- in a custom editor the context I have is ExtensionContext and I do not see these available off of that context. Can you point me to the API docs where this is defined? Searching reference docs shows nada:

[mjbvz]

Those are extension context keys. You can use them like:

          "when": "activeWebviewPanelId == 'resx-editor.editor'"

You can also use Developer: Inspect context key to see all context keys that are currently set

[timheuer]

Ah, that worked, thanks -- can I suggest some docs updating? that context key does not appear to be documented.

Also -- if there are docs on Inspect context key as all I see is red overlay and when clicking on something nothing happens, not sure if some output is supposed to be revealing itself.