Automating / Inheritance

Unity Engine
1

Is there an option to change the script inheritance.Instead to inherit automatically from our script and not MonotBehaviour?
Also,the new template to have our methods and not Start() and Update().

2

Why would you want to do that?

3

You can change the default template. This question seems to cover it pretty well.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/120957/change-the-default-script-template.html

You can also create script files in your code editor, using whatever templates you choose.

If your game is built on a custom framework within Unity then MonoBehaviour, Start and Update might get a bit annoying. If you have to delete them every single time…

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It’s also pretty easy to make a script that copies your own templates, and assign it to the same menu that you create “normal” scripts from. Copied from our project:

public static class CreateScriptHelper {

    [MenuItem("Assets/Create/C# Script Template/Class", false, 0)]
    public static void CreateClass() {
        string path_to_template = ...; //Wherever you've put your template.

        string path_to_new = FindPathToCurrent() + "/NewScript.cs";

        File.Copy(path_to_template, path_to_new);
    }

    //This find the path to the current selected folder.
    private static string FindPathToCurrent() {
        string path = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(Selection.activeObject);
        //Default to assets if the current selection is in the scene, or nothing
        if (path == "") {
            path = "Assets";
        }
        //"if the selected thing is a file, place this next to the file"
        else if (Path.GetExtension(path) != "") {
            path = path.Replace(Path.GetFileName(AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(Selection.activeObject)), "");
        }
        return path;
    }
}

Solving problems like finding a unique file name, and checking that the copying actually works (my version just have the file contents hard-coded in a string) is left as an exercise to the reader.

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