Improved clipboard copy/paste

In order to copy values from the Inspector to insert in code, it would be useful to add a "f" to indicate it's a float. So rather than:

Color(0.1,3,4,1)

it would be:

Color(0.1f,3,4,1)

This is now possible?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/allow-to-paste-color-values-from-external-applications.738845/

 

That's cool, thanks !
One thing that would be really useful (I almost need it every day I'm working in Unity) is to be able to copy/paste every value of every component attached to a gameObject. (Right now you can only do it for one component )

Use case is, for example, trying things (mostly UI) in playmode, when you get the desired result -> right click the gameObject -> "Copy components values" -> stop playmode -> Paste

That would be neat !

 

Not necessarily, but it would be useful too ! Being able to copy an object (you actually can do that already by creating a prefab within playmode, then unpack it after) with two clicks would be great

 

Oh wow, this finally happened This has been easily my top editor annoyances for years and have many times hoped Unity would implement this (can't remember how many times I've asked about this in past).

Thank you!

 

Not sure if this is part of this system but the ability to Cut/Paste keys in the Animation window and Timeline window would be awesome. I spend lots and lots of time copying > pasting > then deleting old keys.

 

Are we supposed to take that as a hint?

 

That apply button should be there like just have a way to apply the changes before you exit playmode. The copy / paste setup helps but it's tedious.

This is something people have always struggled with Unity. In Unity 4 I worked around the lack of copy/paste by just dragging a prefab from gameobject while the game was running and then swapped the GO with the prefab once stopped the play in the editor

ScriptableObjects getting more commonly used have also helped a lot.

 

I love this so much. Thanks!

Spoiler: Cheeky request

Btw when you get a chance (I know this is cheeky) but a major, major quality of life thing I added was having a back and forward shortcut. This is the same in visual studio or your browser, it would be such an instinctive and phenomenal navigation tool when you're object hopping around the project window.

 

While on this subject, any hint of copy/cut/paste of files in the project window? Moving a a file from folder A to folder B in big projects is quite a bit of effort currently

 

I did try using the new Properties (context menu) feature to get a folder and not just an object in focus but it didn't work. Perhaps it could be expanded? right click a target folder and you get a neat project window pop with the top level being that folder.

Seems slightly unusual but no less useful.

(for now you could bookmark a folder and drag something in there - at least in theory that would work)

 

yeah, I could also open an another project window and lock it. But in all cases I need to awkwardly navigate back and forth, instead of cut -> go to destination folder -> paste.

 

On the topic of copy/paste, any chance copy/paste was added to the Assets (e.g. Prefabs, Materials, etc...)?

 

Would love to be able to copy an entire game object hierarchy from one project to another with a simple CTR+C, CTR+V

 

@Aras, I'd like to right click here to paste components, rather than on the tiny vertical ellipsis.

 

Most GameObjects in my projects have Components attached, there is no free space to right-click in most cases, unless you search for it.

What I think should be supported is to paste Components with the Ctrl+V shortcut. If you copied a Component, select another GameObject and press Ctrl+V, it should paste the Component to the selected GameObject. "Paste values" if a the same Component exists on the target GO already, or add the Component if it does not exist yet.

This would allow to paste a Component without having to scroll down in the inspector to find the free space at the bottom to right-click and choose "Paste" in the context-menu.


PS: You don't have to click the vertical ellipsis button, you can also right-click on any Component header.

 

Why be humble about it:



I'm all in favour about being able to right click on the empty space, but also next to the add component button and really wherever.

Just let me throw my mouse over there and go "paste" and not have to aim would be A+++. Might be usability stuff I haven't thought about, but copy-pasting is great and having to aim to do it is lame.

 

I get what you're saying but as @Baste pointed out it doesn't have to be one or the other. Personally I would never use Ctrl+V as I would not be confident that I'd be pasting the component in the right place, especially considering you can have 2 inspectors open (with one locked)... a scenario which might not be so uncommon if you're copying and pasting components from one GO to another.

PS - Didn't know I could click on any component header. Handy tip! Cheers!

 

Yeah there can be multiple inspectors and it's not easy to figure which would be selected (like properties). Best not have keyboard shortcuts for those. Keep keyboard shortcuts for values or for scene operations.

 

ctrl+v would (probably) work on the current active window, so you'd click in the inspector you want to paste in before pasting.

If you hit paste and you have the wrong window focused, you just ctrl+z, so it's no biggie.

 

They'd need to increase the visibility of which inspector to use. With the new right-click properties feature, people can have a ton of these.

Is it worth having inspectors have this highlighted border, or fading and unfading it, really worth it to support a single copy and paste keyboard shortcut?

Especially shortcuts that are shared with other tasks. I'd say it's all possible but I wouldn't want to be the people coding the supporting work required for it or documenting it.

 

@Aras, thoughts about pasting into the area below the Add Component button? Bad idea, Good idea will do it, Good idea not sure if will do it, Jury Still Out?

 

This is a real time saver @Aras

One oddity is that if you try to use HDR with Gradient, it disables Cut & Paste

That is, applying [GradientUsage(true)] to a gradient variable disables Cut & Paste where it normally works for a standard Gradient.

 

Is there way to add this Copy/Paste support to custom inspectors in the API than you can use. Whilst you can obvious poll imgui events for a ContextClick and then show generic menu, all this would have to coded from scratch.

 

It's supported on PropertyFields, but not normal value fields. So if you have an EditorGUILayout or EditorGUI.PropertyField targeting a Vector2, you can copy-paste, but not if you have an EditorGUILayout.Vector2Field.

You can also copy-paste entire custom classes by using EditorGUI.BeginPropery and EditorGUI.EndProperty. That only seems to mean that clicking anywhere inside the rect you have marked copies or pastes the property you passed to BeginProperty, it doesn't really relate to what data you actually draw in that space, which may be confusing if you're not aware of it.

A shortcoming, at least in Unity 2020.3.11 is that you can't copy-paste nested properties in custom scripts. So this doesn't let me copy-paste between the two fields:

Code (csharp):

1. EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(d1.FindPropertyRelative("a"));
2. EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(d2.FindPropertyRelative("a"));

So it's as far as I can tell only possible to copy-paste entire fields on the serializedObject.

 

How can I copy gradient field's gradient to clipboard via code, so that it can be pasted in regular gradient fields like e. g. the particle system has?

Use case: I have a Gradient object which I'd like to modify via C# code and then have it put into the clipboard so that I can use it e. g. for a fire particle.

 

I exclusively worked with Unity 2019.4 for the last two years and just switched recently to 2021.2 to start a new project.

202x.x introduced a severe workflow regression in terms of copy/paste the Transform component.

You're no longer able to copy and paste the Transform component without crawling through sub-menus, which uses more mouse-movement, more clicks and thus more time and focus. That's an extremely inconvenient change.

Please bring back the "Copy Component" and "Paste Component" items to the root context menu.

 

With emphasis on severe. The submenu-hoops are a huge waste of everyones time.

 

It's pretty much redundant anyway since you can copy/paste the explicit position / rotation / scale values by clicking on the label:



Imo it should revert back to Copy Component and in addition to that Position popup menu should get a Copy Position (World) like it's in the sub-menu of the Copy menu item of the transform.

 

I'm trying to come up with a little context menu item to merge a copied list from a component with another one but how do I go about deserializing the copied data? Right now, JsonUtility throws errors for that. It's a GenericPropertyJSON which I assume points to my custom class.

I can already copy and paste the list by hand but I want a merge instead. Any leads you can guide me to?

 

Use an Input Field and modify the graphics so it looks as text
Unity - Selectable UI Text - YouTube

 

You're right, but there are 5 or more posts with a similar question. So, if there would be just 1 post with that question, I'd post that answer just 1 time.