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# ScriptTemplateToolkit

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 3.0 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.

Achieve

Editor

  • ScriptTemplateEditor : Read/Edit/Save script tamplates of Unity engine.
  • ScriptTemplateModifier : Capture the event of create script and replace the mark string to corresponding content.

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

  • ScriptTemplateEditor.

ScriptTemplateEditor

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