[MenuItem] attribute does not work with custom package

Hello,

I want to export a simple editor script as a custom package. Unfortunately my custom menu does not appear in Unity.

I am using embedded package. I have an assembly definition in my Editor folder where my script is.
Testing on 2018.4.1 with 2.0.7 package manager on Win64 system.

Here is folder structure:


Here is actual script in full

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEditor;
3. using UnityEditor.Experimental.SceneManagement;
4. using UnityEditor.SceneManagement;
5.  
6. namespace TabTale
7. {
8.     public class ObjectReplacer : EditorWindow
9.     {
10.         [MenuItem("[TabTale]/Object Replacer")]
11.         static void Init()
12.         {
13.             var window = EditorWindow.GetWindow(typeof(ObjectReplacer));
14.             window.titleContent = new GUIContent("Object Replacer");
15.             window.Show();
16.         }
17.  
18.         void OnEnable()
19.         {
20.             if (EditorPrefs.HasKey(KEY_PREFAB))
21.             {
22.                 var path = EditorPrefs.GetString(KEY_PREFAB);
23.                 _prefab = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<GameObject>(path);
24.             }
25.             if (EditorPrefs.HasKey(KEY_SCALE))
26.             {
27.                 _copyScale = EditorPrefs.GetInt(KEY_SCALE) != 0;
28.             }
29.         }
30.  
31.         void OnDisable()
32.         {
33.             EditorPrefs.SetString(KEY_PREFAB, AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(_prefab));
34.             EditorPrefs.SetInt(KEY_SCALE, (_copyScale ? 1 : 0));
35.         }
36.  
37.         void OnGUI()
38.         {
39.             EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
40.             GUILayout.Label("Prefab");
41.             _prefab = (GameObject)EditorGUILayout.ObjectField(_prefab, typeof(GameObject), allowSceneObjects: false);
42.             EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();
43.  
44.             EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
45.             GUILayout.Label("Copy Scale");
46.             _copyScale = EditorGUILayout.Toggle(_copyScale);
47.             EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();
48.  
49.             if (GUILayout.Button("Replace"))
50.             {
51.                 var selection = Selection.objects;
52.  
53.                 foreach (GameObject obj in selection)
54.                 {
55.                     var parent = obj.transform.parent;
56.                     var prefabObj = (GameObject)PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab(_prefab, parent);
57.                     prefabObj.transform.position = obj.transform.position;
58.                     prefabObj.transform.rotation = obj.transform.rotation;
59.                     if (_copyScale)
60.                         prefabObj.transform.localScale = obj.transform.localScale;
61.                 }
62.  
63.                 for (int i = selection.Length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
64.                 {
65.                     DestroyImmediate(selection[i]);
66.                 }
67.  
68.                 var prefabStage = PrefabStageUtility.GetCurrentPrefabStage();
69.                 if (prefabStage != null)
70.                 {
71.                     EditorSceneManager.MarkSceneDirty(prefabStage.scene);
72.                 }
73.             }
74.         }
75.  
76.         const string KEY_PREFAB = "TTObjectReplacer_Prefab";
77.         const string KEY_SCALE = "TTObjectReplacer_Scale";
78.  
79.         [SerializeField] GameObject _prefab;
80.         [SerializeField] bool _copyScale;
81.     }
82. }

 

Here it is. I am going to download version you mentioned and check it out. Otherwise I do not see any issues in my setup, its by the docs.

 

I am not sure what exactly was the issue but playing with platforms made it work. I simply deselected all and selected them again and menu showed up. There is definitely some issue but I cannot consistently reproduce it.

I want to thank you for your timely response!

I left them like that:

 

I'm currently experiencing the same problem, though I import my own package via git url. In my project where I have the package embedded, it works like a charm though.

Does anyone have it working for git imported custom packages?

 

Using 2019.3.0f1. Also submitted a bug for it if you want to check it: Case 1204133.

Thanks for taking a look into it.

 

I'm having the same issue on Using 2019.3.0f1.

Ya I'm having the same issue on 2019.3.0f1. I'm not getting any compilation errors but it seems as if nothing in my package is accessible. I was trying it with this repo.

 

Ticket is being worked on: link

 

any news about this I'm having this issue in 2018.4.28f

 

Judging by the ticket above, this wasn't a bug and was in fact flagged as by design. Can you let us know how this is inhibiting your workflow so I can discuss this internally?

 

Well it means we can't have editor tools delivered through packages. For example, we group a series of tools that are used in all of our projects in a single package that can be added as needed. We don't want to be forced to use a git submodule to deliver tool content, nor do we want to individually add all these tools to projects.

The point of packages is it's easy to just drop the functionality into your project without having to know how git works.

I don't see how a lack of support for editor tools in packages can be "by design." This literally means that adding editor tools should not work through packages, by design?

 

I recently had this issue. I resolved it by deleting the package and copying it back into my assets folder.

 

Would it be possible to know what the reasoning behind this design is?

As @dchertoff said above, delivering tools via packages is a very common use case and this is a major inconvenience.

 

Oh ok, that is perfectly reasonable.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.

 

In case anyone comes across this, I was having the same issue, but I checked my Assembly Definition and the define constraints were empty.

The only possible discrepancy I noticed was that in the list of platforms, only Editor was ticked, however "All Platforms" was also ticked at the top. I unchecked that, then unchecked the rest so that only Editor was checked again and then the MenuItems showed up as expected.