# ScriptTemplateToolkit

• Alibaba Cloud

Summary

• Toolkit for Unity editor script templates.

Demand

• Quickly Edit/Save Unity editor script templates.
• Auto insert file header comments into the new script.
• Auto mark create date and copyright year.

Environment

• Unity 5.0 or above.
• .Net Framework 3.5 or above.

Prerequisite

• In fact, the script templates store under the Unity editor install path, example “Unity 5.0.0f4\Editor\Data\Resources\ScriptTemplates”.
• Unity provide the API(OnWillCreateAsset method of the AssetModificationProcessor class) to capture the event of user create asset(include script) in Unity editor.

Scheme

Edit

• Create editor code, inherit from EditorWindow class to draw our editor UI, and use our editor to Edit/Save Unity script templates.
• Define mark string, “#CREATEDATE#” mark create date of script and “#COPYRIGHTYEAR#” mark copyright year of code.
• Create our style script templates.

Create

• When you create a script file in Unity editor Project, Unity engine will copy the corresponding template to the new file.
• Create our editor code, inherit from AssetModificationProcessor class and achieve the OnWillCreateAsset(string assetPath) method to capture the event of create asset(include script), read the new script text and replace the “#CREATEDATE#” to current date and replace the “#COPYRIGHTYEAR#” to current year.

Template

• Templates in the path “ScriptTemplateToolkit/Templates” provide reference to you to create your style script templates.

• The format of copyright statement in the templates reference from the U.S. Copyright Office.

Preview

• Script Template Editor.

Tips

• If the notified message is “Access to the path … is denied.” when you save the template, close your Unity and restart it as an administrator.

Contact

• If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at mogoson@outlook.com.