[RELEASED] String-O-Matic - Say goodbye to magic strings

Full Version | Free Version
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Unity's policy for implementing magic strings in almost all of its systems is one the major sources of bugs and headaches, especially for amateurs. Using constant values instead of relying on magic strings heavily reduces the amount of runtime errors.

String-O-Matic scans your project based on your needs to automatically generate constants and static classes holding references to all of those magic strings, effectively replacing soft runtime errors by robust compile errors.

Convert error-prone code

into safe, robust code
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Key Features:

• Replace Unity magic strings for static classes and constants.
• Changing magic strings in the Editor will produce compile errors that would otherwise cause undesired beahviour.
• Comes with many built-in modules, each one addressing a different system.
  
• Easily configurable based on each project needs.
• Easy to use: you just have to click a button.
  
• Easy to extend: you can create your own modules, satisfying your own project needs.
• Fully documented =)
• And last but not least, full source code included.

Modules:

• Tags
• Layers
• Sorting Layers
• Input axes
  
• Navigation Areas
• Scenes --> Lists every scene name and path added to the build.
  
• Audio --> Lists every mixer controller and, for each one, their exposed parameters and snaphots.
• Mecanim--> Lists every animator's parameters, layers, states and sub state machines, recursively.
• Resources--> Lists every object under your resources folder/s and subfolders.
• Shaders--> Lists the shader name and it's properties for every built-in and custom shader

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Version 1.1:

• Added SOMValueAttribute to reference String-O-Matic values from the inspector.
• Added Sorting Layers, Navigation and Shaders modules to the free version.
  
• Bug fixes.

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Please, feel free to post any questions below or email me at antoniocogo@gmail.com: I'll be very glad to help. And, of course, I'm freely open to suggestions.

Full Version | Free Version
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The links are broken ....

 

Hey @liortal, I have had some problems uploading it for review, but the asset is now live and completely working =)

 

we can get acces on inspector ?

 

Do you mean like having a field in some script that takes a value from String-O-Matic (the same way you do with tags)?
Well, I don't have anything like that, but that would be a really interesting feature to add. I'll work on that and I'll let you know of my progress =)

 

Yes it's can give powerfull mecanim workflow

 

Check this out!

Update 1.1

• Added SOMValueAttribute to reference String-O-Matic values from the inspector.
  
  You just have to decorate some string with SOMValueAttribute like this:
  
  And you are ready to inspect it:
  
  This efficiently adds a layer of abstraction to the system, and eases the debugging of things like mecanim.
  Thanks @kilik128 for the awesome suggestion =D
  
  
• The Resources Module now adds a constant holding the path to each folder. Now Resources.LoadAll can be used in conjunction with String-O-Matic ^^
• Some more minor bug fixes.

The package is pending review. I will post again when it gets accepted.

 

year Awesome ! thanks you too be open to suggestion =D
can't wait for try

 

little confuse on first use

using SOM;

give

Assets/FlightScript.cs(4,7): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `SOM' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?


and refrest give me :
SOM.SOMManager.RefreshMenu () (at Assets/StringOMatic/Editor/SOMManager.cs:174)SOM.SOMManager.RefreshAll (Boolean forceUpdate) (at Assets/StringOMatic/Editor/SOMManager.cs:57)SOM.SOMManager.Refresh (Int32 index, Boolean save) (at Assets/StringOMatic/Editor/SOMManager.cs:81)SOM.SOMShadersModule.Refresh () (at Assets/StringOMatic/Editor/Modules/SOMShadersModule.cs:357)SOM.SOMShadersModule.AddShader (System.String name, System.String parent, Boolean isBuiltIn) (at Assets/StringOMatic/Editor/Modules/SOMShadersModule.cs:413)SOM.SOMXmlHandler.AddConstant (System.String path, System.String name, System.String value) (at Assets/StringOMatic/Editor/SOMXmlHandler.cs:161)ConstantAlreadyExistsException: The module at path 'Shaders.Shader Forge.Lerpbyhauteur' already has the constant 'name'


don't found any exemple script




Edit after Import in new projet

i have make Animator.controler add some parameter and state when SOM.refresh the animator is cleared layers is now empty and no more parameter i don't know if it's bug or what

but it's working is when projet is save before make refresh

 

@kilik128 the SOM namespace is only available (and needed) when extending String-O-Matic functionality. Otherwise, you just have to access the class StringOMatic directly, which is in the global namespace.

As for the ShaderForge problem, that is quite an unusual error. Maybe it's because of how Shader Forge works. I could try to fix it if I had some more information or the files.

And I don't really understand the problem about layers and Animator controller. Maybe a more detailed explanation would help.

Also, make sure to update to the latest version on the Asset Store.

 

Hi there,
I just downloaded and imported String-O-Matic free to check it out.
Once it was installed and I attempt to refresh I get the following Error:

Here are the specs on my Machine:

Im running Unity 5.3.0f4

Thanks,
John

 

Hey @JohnRossitter,

Wow, that was a very serious bug on my part that was only present in the free version of SOM.
The new, fixed version is pending review.

Thanks for pointing that out

 

Hi @Cobo3 ,

What platforms are you supporting? I'm guessing that the magic happens in editor only (when the StringOMatic.cs is generated), and it can be used in any platform, but I am not sure (I still haven't read the documentation).

Thanks in advance.

 

That's exactly it, @Oriam. StringOMatic.cs is generated with just the click of a button and then you are ready to use it in any platform you want

 

looking for somethinks lilke this

https://forum.unity.com/threads/return-ref-out-variable.495164/

where in inspector got list of delegate or action return value

 

new question for exemple
if i got resources A of folder B selected in inspector
in code i want select resources B of folder B how i writh this ?
thnak's

 

Looks like SOM (free) has XML reader/writer issues with Unity 2018.3.9f1 and needs some update love.