Trying to make EditorPlugin writing to a file | Godot Café | Page 1

livid minnow Apr 19, 2023, 9:05 PM

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I'm trying to make a plugin so that I can write content in my Editor, then have it save the value as a text file in my resource when I press a button. It works and the file got created but it's not added to FileSystem. How do I amanually trigger the Editor refresh its FileSystem?

stoic quiver Apr 20, 2023, 1:17 AM

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are you using the latest version? I tried and the FileSystem does refresh after the editor get the focus again.

livid minnow Apr 20, 2023, 10:14 AM

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No i mean how to trigger the FileSystem to refresh without having to alt tabbing out. Perhaps there's some sort of function that can be called to import those in?

manic nimbus Apr 20, 2023, 10:49 AM

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Isn't this what you want?
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_editorfilesystem.html#class-editorfilesystem-method-update-file

Godot Engine documentation

EditorFileSystem

Inherits: Node< Object Resource filesystem, as the editor sees it. Description: This object holds information of all resources in the filesystem, their types, etc. Note: This class shouldn't be ins...

livid minnow Apr 20, 2023, 7:09 PM

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how do I do it? my Button isn't EditorPlugin inheriting. How do I grab editor interface using singleton?

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Manual shows how to get the singleton, but it's not working as advertised

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