Now I'm possible to tell if the user selected a prefab in project View?

I'm excited about nested prefab features, however I don't see a way in the new Unity API to tell if the user clicked on a prefab in Project view instead of in the scene hierarchy.

Why does this matter?

Some plugins we have on the asset store want you to make your own prefab out of a prefab that we provide. If you do not and modify the prefab in our asset folder, your changes will be overwritten the next time you update the plugin, which is just nasty.

Some users might not read the instructions or know any better so we have put a button there to create a copy of the prefab and disable all other functionality. That button only appears if you selected the prefab in project View and not in the hierarchy of the scene. However I don't see a way to do that detection anymore. If this feature has to go away starting with unity 2018. 3, no doubt some users will get angry when they do the wrong thing.

So is it possible? To clarify this is for code for a custom inspector.

 

Maybe a similar issue to this one? https://forum.unity.com/threads/customeditor-on-prefab-no-more-appears.555529/

The inspector is all through this now: https://github.com/Unity-Technologi...r/Editor/Mono/Prefabs/PrefabImporterEditor.cs

Maybe if you ask really really really really really nicely, Unity can make it public instead of internal.

 

Well yeah, there is no custom Inspector on a "project view - selected" prefab. Which is dumb. There used to be. Very helpful for me to be able to show custom things there, especially for new users that don't know much. Otherwise they will inevitably make avoidable mistakes. I can't really help them when they hide this from us!

Thank you.