String Array using System.IO GetFiles

This should return the names of files (including their paths) in the specified directory and populate an array.

Code (CSharp):

1. public string[] Tokens = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles("Assets/Tokens");

It is not working, and I have no errors in the console. The folder has .txt files.


While the game was in Play mode, I removed public from the array and saved, then readded public to the array, saved again, and the array updated in the inspector.

How do I get the inspector to update if they are in fact populating the array?

 

Can you not just get the Files inside of the Start() method?

 

I do, the public array does not show this in the inspector
When I make this private, it happens.

 

If you have a list of these Tokens and want to prepopulate a string array with them, just make a little editor inspector button to do it.

If you want these read fresh from that file every time you run, do it in Start() and do NOT mark it public. Marking it public makes Unity ALSO serialize the contents of it.

If you want a custom view on them in your object, make a custom read-only editor inspector window.