Script Inspector 3 - World's Fastest IDE for Unity

Thanks @Fashtas for the detailed error report! I’ll try reproducing that...

Can you tell me please, these two things:
- is this happening on MacOS or Windows, and
- do you use word-wrapping or not?

Knowing that may make reproing the issue a bit easier for me

 

I thought I *was* sticking to LTS builds, you can't even install 2019.4.1 using the HUB which I'd always assumed was the "correct" way of doing Unity things



At any rate this crash has been happening across multiple versions though I cannot be sure if one of them was 2019.4.1

 

Hi there, sorry I missed this reply entirely

This is under Windows, Word Wrap (Code) is not turned on

The error has not popped up in the last few days.

Chris

 

Hi, is this Asset still in Active Development?

 

Hi, yes! It is, the next update is coming in about two weeks.

However, I’m not working on Si3 full time because I wouldn’t be able to pay my bills with that, so it all depends on availability of my free time. Unless if there’s an urgent issue that breaks everything, of course.

Next update is for improving compatibility with the latest version of Unity and to support some of the C# 6.0 syntax.

P.S.: As I’m not doing this for money, my only motivation are the amazing reviews Si3 has been receiving from you folks so please, everyone, don’t forget to chip in to the “motivation pool”

 

Why don't you provide it for free then?

 

He can still make some money on it, just not enough to be a main income,
I don't have any problem with that. the product and support are worth it.

This tool is a life saver for me, as I really don't like any of the external editors.

 

He absolutely can do that, sure. I'm just curious why going the money route, with all the trouble that can include, if it's not for the money.

 

I've been using Script Inspector since it's release. I can't imagine using an external editor except to debug or profile.

 

I considered that as an option, but there are a couple of reasons I couldn't do that. The main reason is to discourage all the haters who would abuse that for posting negative reviews and 1-star ratings. Why would anyone do that, you may ask - I have no explanation, but there used to be a couple of users who used to downvote every new positive review within the first 30 minutes after posting. There was also one person with a weird hobby spending his time on creating fake Unity accounts only to use those accounts votes in the former Unity Feedback and vote up everything else except the suggestion to make Si3 built into Unity Editor. He was doing that for more than a year, creating on average 10 fake accounts every day.

Besides that, the current price covers my expenses for refreshing the hardware I use for working on Si3. In these 8 years, two Windows laptops just died of overuse and an older MacBook stopped working with newer Unity versions, so I had to replace them.

And to be fair, it is nearly free - it's a one-time payment and then free for life. My target price was to reach something between $80 and $120, but I decided to give that up and I lowered the price from $55 to the current price of $39. Once a year, if Unity includes it in an official sale, it goes with 50% off that price too. And for those who can't afford even that, I may have a voucher

 

This is simple. Script Inspector 3 is well worth the money for time saved. Game development requires a huge investment in time, to do it right. Any asset that saves me time is worth its weight in gold. Script Inspector 3 is one such asset.

 

Well said. Honestly, it's the first asset I import when I start a new project.

 

Hello,

What people need to understand is that if your asset is not on the Top Sellers list on the Asset Store, there is no way that Asset is your main source of income. Many times I have had to sideline my Asset Store projects because when I look at the sales, it is just not there to sustain working on it full time. Doesn't mean it is not being worked on, just means it is not a priority. Keep doing what you are doing @Flipbookee. I look forward to any improvements.

Thanks,
jrDev

 

Hey, hey! Did you know you can get Script Inspector 3 with a 95% discount now?

Yes, you can - if you buy the Asset Store X Mega Bundle:

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It costs $35.99 and you get 20 awesome assets for a price of less than the regular Si3 price.

The regular price for all those assets is more than $900, but don't worry if you feel like $35.99 is a steal - you can add some extra to that if you wish and sleep without guilt

 

If I didn't already own almost all those assets already I'd pick it up.

I have passed it on to some friends who might get it though. =)

 

scrollmap support?

 

I have a feature request: Vi mode. Vim would be too much, Vi is much simpler and all I need is the modal editing power of Vi.

That is the only missing feature to make this tool perfect for me.

 

Hi,

I got the Script Inspector 3 today with Unity Asset Store Mega Bundle X. Sorry for asking such a basic question. But I can't figure it out. From the upper right corner, I can change which font I'm using and Color Scheme. Everything looks perfect now, but how can I increase the font size?

 

Hello @Harha-Studios
You can use Preferences -> Ui Scaling for that, it scales all Unity editor fonts. I think the way it is setup by default, in Win10 one can also do that via shift + mouse wheel, but I cannot test that right now..

 

@Harha-Studios, if you only want to change the Si3 font size, on Windows press Ctrl+= or Ctrl+Plus sign to increase it and Ctrl+Minus sign to decrease the font size. Use Cmd on MacOS instead of Ctrl with the same keys. You could also do that by holding Ctrl and rolling the mouse wheel. And if you’re on a laptop, zoom in and zoom out motions on the touchpad should work as well.

 

Hi @Flipbookee
I was just wondering if there's a way to automatically implement methods of an interface with Script Inspector?

 

Uh, that’s still on my to-do list, sorry.

I’ll do that when I get the first chance...

 

Yes, it's working. So excited to start using Si3!

 

No worries, I just wanted to be sure I didn't overlooked a shortcut!
It would be really cool if you implement that.

 

Hello! Would it be possible to add editor support for null-coalescing operator?

Code (CSharp):

1. other.GetComponent<Player>()?.Damage();

The code above compiles fine but the editor complains about unknown symbol

Thanks!

 

Yes. I have that added and working locally already and it will be released with the first next update. I hope, very soon.

 

Awesome, thanks!

 

You should avoid using the

?

or

??

operators with

UnityEngine.Object

-derived types. Those objects can be fake-null when the underlying native object has been destroyed but these operators don't pick up on that.

Meaning when you have a reference to a C# wrapper of a destroyed native object, these operators will consider it non-null but you'll get a

NullReferenceException

if you try to access any of its properties.

Additionally, in the editor

GetComponent

will return a fake object when the component doesn't exist to provide a nicer error message (

MissingComponentException

instead of generic

NullReferenceException

) and these operators also won't prevent you from triggering the exception.

See here for a discussion about this issue:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/elvis-operator-null-coalescing-operator.433767/

 

Thanks, you learn something new every day. Back to regular old null checking then I guess.

 

Let's hope Unity catches up and gets C# 9 sooner rather than later.
https://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/2020/03/12/c-different-ways-to-check-for-null/

 

Hello,
am having the issue that despite having disabled reload on save,
The editor reloads the scripts after a couple of seconds even if only having saved once. probably Unity still detects that the file changed on the drive.
Unfortunately that makes this quite unusable as the main editor for larger projects because it interrupts the workflow by 5-10 seconds each time...
Would like if it only updated on the Ctrl+R command or when pressing the play button of Unity.
Any suggestions?
Huge thanks in advance.

 

Hey Flipbook,
I've been using your plugin recently and it works great on Windows. But on Ubuntu there are some small issues. I'm not sure if these are issues you can solve or do I ask unity.

1. Undo undoes tasks in unity as appose to script inspector (SI). This is annoying because as I am scripting, I make a mistake, undo, and I don't know what I just undid in the unity editor. The undo button in SI works as expect.
2. The Delete button. I am not sure what the deal is with this but sometimes I press delete and it creates spaces. Also with line delete (Shift + delete). I don't know much about this myself, but these line endings are considered errors.

Using Ubuntu 20.04.
P.S. SI is much easier to use on Linux than VSCode or Monodev.

 

@Steedalion, regarding this issue on Ubuntu:

Can you try Shift+Ctrl+Z for Undo and Shift+Ctrl+Y for Redo? I know that's not ideal, but I hope it will be a good enough alternative until I find a solution for that.

I don't know what's this issue:

It sounds like a bug in Unity on Linux, but I'm not sure. Can you check what happens on pressing Delete outside of the Si3's code editing control, like in a search field for example?

I'm not sure I understand what happens on Shift+Delete:

Does it also insert a Space? Where? Why is that considered an error? There used to be a warning about mixed line ending characters in a single script, but Si3 is never going to save a script like that. So I'm not sure what you get with this last issue.

 

Unity runs its auto-scan for modified scripts when the Editor receives "application focus", i.e. when you switch to another application and then back to Unity. There's a way to prevent that by turning off "Auto Refresh" in Edit->Preferences...->General, but keep in mind that this option affects all the assets in your project, not the scripts only. You'd have to manually tell Unity to reload any changes to the assets made outside of Unity by selecting Assets->Refresh from the main menu. The same would apply for the scripts edited in an external IDE, so if you do that, you'd have to click Assets->Refresh for Si3 to pick those changes up.

I don't know is it possible to find a better solution. I'll have to think about that...

 

Interesting, thanks for bringing this up! It sounds like I should better add a warning in Si3 when it detects these cases.

 

Hi Flipbook,
Thank you for your prompt response.

That works, thank you.

I have attached a short video. I believe these are the same issue.
The problem is that delete creates a space with no character that unity registers as errors. Delete-line is also affected (Shift+Del), but Ctrl+Del functions correctly.

Keep up the good work.

 

I'm running Ubuntu, and the ctrl-s is being ignored when I try to save edits. (Linux support in Unity is often problematic, I know).

Kudos for the great tool!

Tac

 

@tacman1123, that seems to be a similar issue as with Ctrl+Z. Please try saving with Shift+Ctrl+S instead and let me know if that works. I think I should be able to fix this, and the Ctrl+Z issue on Ubuntu, so I'll send you and @Steedalion the fix. It will be a great help if you could verify the fix for me!

 

Wondering if support assembly definitions could be added. It would be great if in the code editor somewhere I could see what assembly im currently working in that would be of a great help!

 

Yes, it should be possible. I'll only have to decide where to show that... Let me know, if anyone has a suggestion.

 

I was thinking right after the file path in parenthesis (assemblyname.dll). Visual studio for mac gives me so much difficulties with assembly definitions this would be an enormous help. Thanks for the plugin please keep up the great work

 

Another productivity idea/recommendation, renaming variables and methods. I noticed the editor already highlights all references of a given variable/method when clicking on it so being able to mass rename all of them would helpful.

 

Hi, if I work in a team and want to use this tool, will it work for the others that don't use it if I add the ScripInspector folder within Assets to .gitignore in my local branch?
Thanks.

 

Yes, the project will work fine without Si3 because it doesn’t add anything to it or to the final builds.

 

Yes, I miss the rename refactoring as well. I have that feature partially implemented, just it isn’t ready for a release yet. I have to take care of more urgent needs first, but that will be done right after.

 

Not quite sure why this keeps happening...but sometimes after the editor refreshes all my text gets messed up. I then need to close the editor and reopen to fix.

also, seems like this script editor does not understand DOTS logic. It just says "unknown symbol" for lamba burst logic.

using unity 2020.1.14

any ideas?

 

@toomasio haha, yeah, sometimes the text render breaks. I know that one too well, but actually consider it more of a feature than a bug. ;-) It looks mysteriously beautiful sometimes and you can experience you script in a new light.
And it always goes away with a save or opening a different script file.. But I agree otherwise, some better support for the DOTS style programming would be nice to have at some point.

 

@toomasio and @ElevenGame, the font mess up is not something I can fix. Si3 is relying on Unity for text rendering, so that would be a bug either in the Unity code or in the graphics drivers. Either the texture atlas containing font glyphs got trashed or the UV coordinates to those glyphs got messed up, and both of those are outside of my control.

I haven't seen this issue myself (or maybe I did once on Mac, a long time ago), but I believe reimporting the font assets in Si3 would fix the issue. Could you please try that the next time it happens and let me know whether that fixes it? The easiest way to reimport the fonts would be to right-click the root folder of Si3 - Assets/Plugins/Editor/ScriptInspector3 and select Reimport. That would force Unity to regenerate the glyphs texture atlas along with their UV coordinates.

I can't see what are the false syntax errors exactly in that screenshot, but I believe they are due to the lack of support for newer C# versions, which is something I'm working on and will be covered with the next release, I hope this weekend.

 

I'm enjoying Script Inspector but sometimes I want to use Visual Studio. Is there a way to keep Visual Studio as the default and then use Script Inspector when I want to? I noticed when I right click on a component it will say "Edit Script" and "Edit In Script Inspector" but both of these open in Script Inspector. I'd like it if Edit Script went to Visual Studio (which is my default in Unity's preferences)

 

@tchris, yes, holding down Ctrl on Windows or Cmd on macOS while opening a script "swaps" the external IDE and Si3. Your primary script editor will be the one chosen in Si3 Preferences, either Si3 or your external IDE, and the other one will be your secondary editor. Holding the key while opening a script swaps temporarily the chosen primary editor with the secondary.

The issue with right-clicking on a component sounds like something I may have missed. I'll fix that, thanks for reporting that.