Feedback Please "taking notes with txt file in unity project panel" feature!

We may need to leave notes to our teammates in asset files. We usually do this by creating a txt file in the windows window with the "show in explorer" option.

But if there was an option called "right click>create>txt file" in it, it would make our job much easier.

But the notes created in this "add notes to assets" feature must be in txt format. because we may want to look at these notes in the windows window as well.

Please take care this feedback.

 

Already done long ago. Here you go.

https://gist.github.com/kurtdekker/e63690a1bfe9515d40d3f09a1470daba

Drop this script on any GameObjects in any scene or prefab anywhere and type away to your heart's content.

When you want to find them, search for

t:comments

in the scene or prefab filter field:

 

that's not what i meant. please read the description again

 

Code (CSharp):

1.     using System.IO;
2.     using UnityEditor;
3.  
4.     public static class CreateTextFile
5.     {
6.         [MenuItem("Assets/Create/New Text File", priority = 100)]
7.         private static void CreateNewTextFile()
8.         {
9.             string folderGUID = Selection.assetGUIDs[0];
10.             string projectFolderPath = AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(folderGUID);
11.             string folderDirectory = Path.GetFullPath(projectFolderPath);
12.  
13.             using (StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(folderDirectory + "/NewTextFile.txt"))
14.             {
15.                 sw.WriteLine("This is a new text file!");
16.             }
17.          
18.             AssetDatabase.Refresh();
19.         }
20.     }

Bazinga.

 

Thanks for this code. But I wanted Unity to add this feature. .txt file can be created from the editor without the need to write code.

 

That's nice but I wouldn't hold my breath. Unity has a lot of ACTUAL valuable game-facing features they need to implement and they're unlikely to design, implement, test and roll out a special engine hack for something as trivial as writing a comment, which can easily be handled by a tiny little script snippet.

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and say using text files as in project documentation is not standard practice. Small the feature may be, it's only relevant to your particular, quirky use case.

And you're really complaining about having to add a handful of lines of code? Unity is made to be extended, so go nuts and extend it to yourself. I have butt loads of code extending the editor to my liking.

 

I'm not complaining about writing code, but the note-taking feature must come in Unity. This feature will come in the future. You will see.

 

Not really. I don't think this is something that should happen in engine. If you want to organise information for your team, use proper team/project management software for that.

Add the code and move on. I'm sick of people going "waa waa waa I want Unity to add it" when they could doing themselves in less time it took to make a forum post.

 

Seriously this. The first thing that would happen if you had basic note-taking functionality would be a whole slew of extra reports driven by the Project Manager types:

- can they have time estimate slot?
- can they have a checkbox for "done"
- can they have sub-tasks?
- can we put intra-project links in the files?
- can we put HTML links in the files?
- how come I clicked on a link and my Unity project is infected with malware?
- etc

And before long Unity isn't making a game engine. They're making JIRA or Trello or some other miserable CRM software. No thanks. If you need CRM, go use CRM software.

 

Yes you are right about that