tutorials/plugins/editor/making_plugins

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tutorials/plugins/editor/making_plugins

About plugins: A plugin is a great way to extend the editor with useful tools. It can be made entirely with GDScript and standard scenes, without even reloading the editor. Unlike modules, you don'...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/plugins/editor/making_plugins.html

[Rivers47]

Why does the C# version of MyButton doesn't have the enclosing #if TOOLS #endif with it?

[paulloz]

Hi. If that class was wrapped by #if TOOLS, the node type would not be compiled when the game is exported. You can find more information about it here

[Ceruin]

When I try in C# my plugin.cfg auto-gens to:

[plugin]

name="test123"
description=""
author="Fuey500"
version=""
script="test123.cs"

which is not what the 4.4 stable tutorial shows.

[Calinou]

Are you referring to this part of the tutorial?

The values listed here are just meant to show what you should enter in the dialog, not what plugin.cfg contains.

[Ceruin]

Yes, Ah sorry I thought it was a representation of the file.

[Moosh64]

Making a note because it gave me a bit of headache figuring this out and no tutorial I found mentioned it: it says the root node of a dockable dialog should be Control or one of its child classes, but what you really want is the ScrollContainer specifically. This enables scrollbars when elements get bigger than the dock

[HaruYou27]

Do NOT use add_custom_type() together with class_name. This will cause

ERROR: Failed parse script foobar.gd
Class FooBar hides a global script class.

I downloaded some plugins from the Godot Asset Library and they all have this issues. Perhaps the docs should warns about this ?

[Calinou]

Pull request opened:

• Emphasize script classes over custom types in Making plugins godot-docs#11507