Load text from dll

Hello Community!

I'm working on a dll-project for Unity. I use Xamarin as my IDE. (It is almost the same - I think it IS the same - as the new MonoDevelope shipped with Unity but without the nice modifications like Shader Support)

Now I want to add support for data presets. I use serialization to save the data created by my EditorWindow. (I use the BinaryFormatter but I encode the result as Base64 so I can save it easy as an txt file and Unity recognizes it as a TextAsset)

To do that I would create a preset and then save the generated file to another location. Yes, I could put this file in a subdir of my project but I try to put it in the Editor DLL. If I only put it in a "Prefab" subdir of my project somebody can try to change it. Not a big problem, it is his or her copy and he/she can reimport that file. But it would be perfect if he or she never get the ideo to modifiy the preset. So, it is not a problem. It is only for styling purposes.

Have anybody an ideo to do that.
Only putting the whole text into a string in a class is easy but very, very ugly. Are there better options?

 

Why is it not saved as .asset?

 

Hm,

until now I never used .asset (The full name was Asset Bundles, right?). I just heard sometimes about it. But were Asset Bundles not a pro feature? I have pro but I wan't to sell the finished package at the asset store and it should be aviable for free and pro.

Thank you for your help!
(Le'ts start to read Documentation!! )

 

After looking some minutes I know .asset files aren't AssetBundles.

They are the same as every other asset (.mat for Example).
So if I understand right, I just write a simple script that load a .txt file as TextAsset and then save the object with the AssetDatabse.CreateAsset as a .asset file right?

That looks realy nice.
I think I try to make a script that holds every preset and write it in an asset file.

 

Yeah, you can save anything that derive from ScriptableObject into a .asset. Unity handles all the serialization/deserialization.

Little method to add a "Create Item" menu in the right click in the Project window.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     [MenuItem("Assets/Create/Item")]
3.     public static void CreateItem()
4.     {
5.         MethodInfo method = EditorWindow.focusedWindow.GetType().GetMethod("GetActiveFolderPath", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
6.  
7.         if (method == null)
8.             return;
9.  
10.         ItemData item = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<ItemData>();
11.         string path = (string)method.Invoke(EditorWindow.focusedWindow, new object[0]);
12.  
13.         path += "/New Item.asset";
14.  
15.         AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(item, path);
16.     }
17.  

 

Thank you!