Question Path are "hardcoded" and making it impossible to change textures / uss / uxml places

Hello,

I'm trying to change my file to some other folder. By doing so I'm breaking all the game because the reference are not made from the GUID but from a relative path.
Meaning also that each time I'm renaming a texture a USS or a UXML, everything breaks.

Is that a bug ? Is their any way to link file without the path?

For exemple right now I have
Assets/UI/UXML/MyPage.uxml
As soon as I change the MyPage.uxml name or path, all the other USS / UXML that references it also break.

What do I do wrong?

Thanks.

 

I'm not a fan of this either, but there are several things you can do to make your life easier

USS/UXML can be serialised by EditorWindow script's default template
the <Style> property in UXML is also handy as you can apply stylesheets in your UXML (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UIE-WritingUXMLTemplate.html)

 

Hello !
I'm not really sure to follow your idea? How would you do that?

Currently if I try to edit the UXML / USS with a IDE to change the path from, let's say, Assets/PreviousFolder to Assets/MyNewFolder it's getting messy and crashs.

 

Hey Kaiymu_,
had a similar issue this morning... one solution is provided in my thread
https://forum.unity.com/threads/possibilities-to-load-uss-uxml-when-distributed-as-package.905618/

you could simply call the method i've posted like

Code (CSharp):

1. var myUxmlTemplate = LoadFirstAssetByFilter<VisualTreeAsset>("MyPage")

then at least the path changing should be fixed for you ... renaming the files itself will stay of course but maybe your IDE can help you here.

edit: Ouhh ...Just realized that you might talk about paths in your uxml (not in the script file) in this case i'd suggest to look into the link BinaryCats provided ... especially the

src

and

path

attribute section

Hope this helped
Best Cxyda

 

Thanks both of your for your answers!
I'm keeping your idea saved because it's quite interesting and I'll need it for sure in the future!

I'm working with a lot of UI guys and my focus is to help them be as autonomous as possible, meaning that I want their UI to be finale instead of inserting a lot of stuff by code.

I'm a bit surprised that UIElements doesn't handle files like "components" where the GUID is stored and not the name / path.
Maybe it's going to come in a new update!

Anyway, thanks a lot for your replies

Have a good day.