Script Inspector 3 - World's Fastest IDE for Unity

Thanks for the update.
Yes Open AI / Codebot is a gamechanger.
It helps a lot with trivial tasks that I always need to look up (like regex) and also with repetitive work.

 

Another note on the OpenAI integration:
You could add the possibility for users to add their own API key.

 

Sure, with OpenAI's Codex I'd definitely have to let users use their own API key. If I use my own key, we would exhaust its quota in no time (and I'd be paying the subscription for everyone ).

I assume they charge for this service because the ML model runs in the cloud, and possibly more because they've spent billions on training the model... But I'm also checking if there's anything similar to Codex, but for free, which would be a nice alternative for those who cannot afford the subscription.

 

YAY! It seems like finally, I fixed the bug I was struggling with for more than a month. It was something I introduced recently while working on new features for the upcoming release. It was also a hell of a bug for debugging and I'm so glad I found a way to see what was wrong. And that was the last thing preventing this release, so please watch this thread for the announcement of a new release in a few days...

 

Hey I would like to report a bug with error highlighting:

Methods that return tuple values are constantly highlighted in red, and cannot be recognized by the editor


So, whenever I use the method, it does not autocomplete the arguments, and tells me the symbol is unknown:


furthermore, getting the tuple elements also returns unknown symbol


tuples created anywhere (not just in methods) also unknown


So, no tuple support

I mean the code works and I rarely use tuples, but it's a bit annoying to have a bunch of non-existing errors

 

Code-folding was referenced in numerous posts, but I don't see it in SI3.
Not there or did I miss it? (Just bought SI3 and, so far, code-folding is the only VS feature I miss.)

 

@imgodot, it isn’t there yet. Sorry, adding support for modern C# language features took priority over code folding, but it won’t be for long, I believe. The feature is half- finished already and I’ll get back to it ASAP.

 

@Triunvirato, right, I know - I implemented full support for C# tuple types and it is part of the upcoming release I mentioned in my last post above.

 

@Flipbookee

I have one question/request

you see the vertical white line next to the line numbers?

I want to make that darker, how would I do that?
Thanks

 

Is it better like this?


I changed the value of the (misleadingly named) field fold from aluminium3 to aluminium4... Just change that, save the changes, and let Unity compile that - you should see the difference immediately

 

Yes thank you that's better!

 

Thanks for the response. I presumed that was the case.

However, if the folding code is half finished, can't you release it as-is?
That would allow us to fold our code sections ... halfway?
Or, would it allow us to fold half of our code sections?

-- Paul

 

My choice ended on aluminium6, now looks very nice

 

Hey, I would like to request a feature (along with code folding): Could you add these dotted lines that facilitate viewing of code blocks, like visual studio:




Thanks for this amazing, blazing fast asset btw!

 

Yup, I miss those lines too - will do...

Thanks, and thanks for your amazing review

 

hey great asset
using it for years

however ive noticed every time I update class files it tends to reload my entire projects assemblies for compiling, is there anyway to make this process faster? Ive been considering going back to visual studio (ehhh), but I REALLY love your asset.

 

Thanks so much, @gRtVnAUoolam1492!

Look, if you're asking me if I can do something in Si3 to make compiling and reloading assemblies faster, then no, because that's something Unity does. Switching to some other IDE won't help either because IDEs don't do that for Unity, and Unity makes its own decisions about what has to recompile and then runs one of its own compilers. Si3 and external IDEs have nothing to do with that.

But still, there is something you could do to improve compiling speed of your projects - you'll just have to understand and use correctly Unity's Assembly Definitions:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ScriptCompilationAssemblyDefinitionFiles.html

Or just google the subject and you'll find plenty of resources, like this one for example:
http://www.screaminggoose.com/blog/2019/2/4/how-i-cut-unity-compile-times-by-75

 

How can i make custom tooltip with comment such as below? :
/// <summary>
/// blah blah
/// </summary>
public void blah(){......}

 

Hi @Flipbookee is there a way to use the text formatting in runtime?

 

@yunpu1004, I'm sorry, you cannot. The tooltips don't pick up those comments currently, and I'll have to do some refactoring to implement this feature without hurting the performance. That was a compromise I had to make in order to make Si3 the fastest code editor in the world, but don't worry, I have a plan how to add this feature and keep Si3 as fast as it is, if not even a bit faster than now.

 

@Nihil688, you mean like, to use Si3 in a built project? No, there's no way because Si3 relies on a lot of the Editor only features of Unity.

 

hey just making a comment, but when I disabled "Don't ask to save, just store in memory" somehow it made the script editor work faster and more stable, such as not losing whole lines of code when switching tabs to look at other code or tabbing out of editor and respecting initial save.

anyway thanks again for your excellent work, without this tool i'd have gone insane years ago when it came to dev time in unity.

 

Hmm, that's something very interesting now... I'm going to check that - thanks for reporting!

Right, I know that feeling very well I've been there too and wished to have just at least something that works well. I was like "Jeez MD, just stop getting into my way and distracting me, I'm trying to get some work done here!". And that's why this tool was made

 

Just for the text formatting. Basically I want to colour C# based variables etc, nothing more

 

I see... If that's only for viewing C# code, Si3 might be an overkill. Even if it's for editing, it still might be too much as it's optimized to handle large scripts in large projects. And adapting it to work outside of the Unity Editor would be too much work...

Someone else asked this same question, and I think at the end he ended up with his own, much simpler solution. I suggested coloring the text using Unity's built-in text formatting tags. So for viewing only, I suggested to him to replace all the words in the script that need highlighting with the same word but wrapped inside a <color> tag and to display that in a regular UI element. To allow editing as well, I suggest using two such UI elements placed on top of each other, where one is used to edit the unformatted text (maybe fully transparent / invisible), while the other one shows that same text but formatted with all the colors. And I think he did that in almost no time and it worked well

 

Thank you Flipbookee. It's AMAZING!
P/S: can you add Function list panel?

 

sure, I just wanted something ready instead of going and regexing everything from scratch

 

YAY!!! Thanks so much! Please don't forget to post a review

Yeah maybe, but there's already something like that in the Code Navigation toolbar:


Just press that button in it with the mouse or access the list with Alt+M on Windows or Ctrl-M on macOS

 

Hello, I really enjoy using your asset. Just curious how the next update is coming along? Getting close?

Thanks!

 

Yes, it’s really close now and I’m giving my best to complete that by the end of today.

 

That didn't go all by the plan but bear with me - I'm pretty sure I'll finish it during this week...

 

Hey, my friends! Guess what's new today

Script Inspector 3
version 3.0.31
is now available for download here
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It has some new features, many fixes, and improvements. Most notably:
- IMPORTANT FIXES:
* Fixed indentation with tab characters
* Fixed potential infinite loop in the parser
- C# 5.0-8.0 support:
* Tuple types with explicitly and implicitly named fields, decomposition, and discard variables
* Discard variables in assignments and out arguments
* Pattern matching in "is expressions" for all 3 types: declaration, constant, and var patterns
* Both null-conditional operators: ?. and ?[]
* Null-coalescing assignment operator ??=
* Binary literals
* Digit separators
- Added argument hints for constructors
- Added "Search in Selection" option to Find in Files and Replace All - thanks @iloveloon
- Added tooltips on SI tab titles showing file location
- Improved tooltips to show the short syntax for Nullable types
- Improved keyboard handling on Windows when the search field is focused
- Saving CPU time and battery power by not blinking the caret when Unity Editor is not in focus
- Fixed implicitly typed parameters of lambda expressions used as constructor arguments - thanks @zKici
- Fixed reloading of externally modified files - thanks @JRDev
- Fixed resolving constructor overloads
- Fixed scope of foreach local variables
- Fixed parsing of interpolated strings
- Fixed lifted operators for nullable types
- Fixed implicit conversion of types to an interface they implement
- Fixed positioning of tooltips for C# code symbols
- Fixed key bindings for quick find commands when arguments hint tooltip is open
- Fixed syntax highlighting of the keyword "finally"
- Fixed highlighting of matching braces
- Fixed highlighting the line number of the current line
- Fixed a rare issue with vertical positioning of text lines
- Fixed a rare issue with the background color

Please note that you can only download the new version of Si3 with Unity version 2018.4 or newer! After downloading it there, you can copy it into your other projects for older versions of Unity. This is because uploading for a version of Unity older than 2018.4 is not working currently, and I don't know is that a permanent new restriction or a temporary issue with the Asset Store or the Asset Store Tools.

Thanks! Enjoy and please don't forget to post your feedback (here or as a new review).

 

Amazing huge update ! Thanks!!

 

I have one request, can you add bit more space between the two little arrows ( up , down ) X.
Its a bit hard for me to click these small icons, and if more space between them it would be easer. also a bit more padding before the X, Thanks

 

@Flipbookee Did DGordon ever send this along? It's definitely still a use case I'm interested in.

 

Did he send his SITextArea? I don’t think he did, but it was a long time ago, so I may be wrong. I checked my inbox quickly, didn’t find that there.

 

Attention, please! There's a critical update waiting for you:

Script Inspector 3​

version 3.0.32
is now available for download here​

​

This is what's new in this release:
- CRITICAL FIXES:
* Fixed crash on resolving discard variable - thanks @michaellandonhatfield
* Fixed crash on resolving named arguments
- Supported double-click and right-click on log entries in SI Console logged with Full Stack Trace Logging
- Updated look of search field and Code Navigation toolbar in Unity 2019.3+
- Optimized keyboard input handling
- Allowed editing .php and .py assets in the Inspector
- Fixed resolving "foreach" variable type for non-interface based enumerable
- Fixed auto-suggestions after the "new" keyword
- Fixed auto-fix for adding a missing using directives and fully qualifying symbols
- Fixed missing duplicates in call-stack frames for log entries on right-click in SI Console
- Fixed tooltip on the first word-wrapped symbol
- Fixed embedding in Properties windows

It may not look like there were too many changes, but they are indeed critically important, so please update ASAP.

Enjoy!

 

Fun fact:

Did you know this? Out of all non-free assets on the Asset Store, almost 70,000 of them, only 14 assets have received more 5-star reviews than Si3

Thank you all for your great support and encouragement

 

@digiwombat, no - SuperEditor doesn't allow that either because that's essentially Si3 with some minor modifications. It's a copy of Si3 stolen by a pirate and giving it away for "free", where "free" is in double-quotes because criminals never do something for free. It's a way for him to get full and unlimited access to your machine in the hope to steal something valuable from there. Running pirate's stolen, modified, and then obfuscated code is worse than letting a criminal stay in your home while you're not at home

 

Oh man, thanks for letting me know. I had no idea it was pirated SI3. I thought it was a bit curious that it was a .dll, though people are cagey about source releases for Unity Assets pretty often. I removed my comment from his repo and you should considering sending a DMCA against the repo:

https://docs.github.com/github/site-policy/guide-to-submitting-a-dmca-takedown-notice

I don't currently own SI3 since I don't really have a use for the asset without the ability to build it into custom editors (I do my own work in VS Code lately) so I'm not familiar enough to have recognized that it was SI3 rebranded. Sorry about that. I'm just looking for a solution to some editor features I'd like to have for my codegen/scripting editors and will happily pay for.

 

Hey folks! Guess who's celebrating its 10th birthday today

And on that occasion, here's a small present for you all:

Script Inspector 3
version 3.0.33
is now available for download here
​

This is what's new in this release:
- IMPORTANT FIX: Fixed assembly references when they are stripped out
- Fixed resolving certain generic extension method overloads
- Fixed Unity Scripting API URL for event members

Enjoy!

 

No guesses? I don't know, maybe it was obvious to all, but yeah, it was Script Inspector's birthday it turned 10, believe it or not.

It's amazing how fast the time flies when you're busy (and I can't believe I'm 10 years older since I started this project).

 

Is font ligatures supported?

 

I've unassigned all shortcuts available for Script Inspector 3 in the Shortcuts window, but Find Text still opens when I press Ctrl+Shift+F, which is the default shortcut for Unity's Main Menu/GameObject/Align With View command.

It might just be my weird keyboard?

 

Cursor position looks broken.
My usecase is that i develop a project in a usbdisk, i connect the usb disk to a computer A and change to other computer, computer B. Computer a and b has different monitor with different resolution(4k and FHD).
The updating screen resolution does not look affecting script inspector 3 so cursor position looks broken.

 

woah, what a great asset, as someone who works on multiple devices, some of which are linux, some of which are windows, i was always very annoyed by the amount of time i had to keep fiddiling with my IDEs every time they get updated, till they work this looks like a life saver
and very happy to see its still being updated it as well
honestly, i think, the only 2 features that make me not fully transition is probably no F2 (in VSCode i'd press F2 and then it would rename all instances of the thing that is selected, so if i have variable named
health
if i press F2 and then write the new name, it'd be renamed everywhere where this variable was referenced

and the second thing is go to definition, i am not sure if we can change the hotkey to be honest, but if we can it'd be perfect (basically its F12, and 99% of the times its `Control + left click` at least in mono develop and VScode)

i guess the second one is more of a nit pick as i can build some muscle memory, but the first one, i just cant use a code editor without it sadly

and the F12 is quite slow sadly, it can take like 5 seconds to find some classes sadly

Edit:
well, it appears that there is no auto format feature type of thing, which is more of a good helper

but a big deal for me was after investigating further the nested functions do not work :'(
i guess i could use Action a = ()=>{};
but well, a lot of code is already written in nested functions format oh well, almost perfect

 

Nice recommendation for SI3

 

@Flipbookee Do you still view this thread or is there a different place to ask questions?

 

Well no, no one asked for that... What did you have in mind to use them for, in particular? To change the appearance of ==, !=. >=, <=. => and such, or something else?

 

This thread is OK, sorry for the delay... I missed some notifications initially, then saw many posts and wanted to find enough time to answer all at once.