Signal dropdown submenu organization

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Hi,

Quick question about signals: is it possible to organize them into subgroups that are used as submenus in the inspector dropdown? I’m working on a project that makes heavy use of timelines and signals, and I’ve got so many signals now that the default dropdown is becoming very unwieldy to use.

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You can use the DisplayName attribute and ‘/’ to create a submenu:

using System.ComponentModel;
using UnityEngine.Timeline;

[DisplayName("SubMenu1/SubMenu 2/Custom marker")]
public class CustomMarker : Marker { }

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Thanks. That’s for custom markers though, I’m referring to default signals - specifically the inspector menu dropdown where we assign callbacks to each signal on the timeline. Image as an example, I have many more signals than are shown here, so it becomes very unwieldy to use.

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Oh I see… Unfortunately, there is no way to add a submenus/subgroups. I looked at the code and only the name of the signal asset is used to build the menu. I’ll add a feature request.

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Thanks. Something as simple as using underscores (or whichever predefined symbol) to split the name of a signal into nested submenus would solve the issue entirely. And it has the added benefit of not requiring any additional information to build the menu, just use the names in a slightly different way. There’s potential backwards compatibility issues, of course.