Bug Tabbing over from VS without saving causes inadvertent refresh (when manual refresh)

If I make changes in VS and tab back, Unity is not supposed to reload if I turned on manual refresh. In 2019.1, this was fine -- only in 2020.1 ~

(PS: Any plans to fix the thread-locking global refresh? I can have a brand new scene with nothing inside, change 1 thing, and it scans my entire project / every scene if I refresh -- it's not smart, nor is it optimized).

 

Do you use Visual Studio Tools for Unity? In case you are, perhaps it's related to this option:

 

Oooohhh.... I wonder if Tools for Unity can override this, depending on what option is chosen in Unity. I'd still arguably call it a bug. Good find, though. Thanks!

 

@sailro @jbevain

I guess Tools for Unity doesn't override the Unity option, it just calls

AssetDatabase.Refresh

manually (on purpose, because the option says so).

Maybe VSTU should read whether "Auto Refresh" is enabled in Unity and only call Refresh when it's. But then you could argue it's a bug in VSTU, because their "sync" wouldn't work anymore if it's turned off in Unity.

Maybe VSTU should not have a True/False option, but have three options instead:

• Never Refresh
• Always Refresh
• Refresh if "Auto Refresh" is enabled in Unity

 

Yes this is on our radar. What we planned going forward is to keep the VS setting as is, but on the Unity side:
- always call AssetDatabase.Refresh for Unity versions not supporting the AutoRefresh setting
- call AssetDatabase.Refresh for Unity versions supporting the AutoRefresh setting if AutoRefresh = true

 

Fixed in both VSTU (for 2019.x and before) and the VS package (2020.x+) masters.