MonoDevelop scripts

[Radivarig]

Scripts and readme for using MonoDevelop

[Radivarig]

Good to go

[jurf]

Niiice dude. Sorry for responding so late, was away from home all week. I'm gonna test it hopefully on the morrow (though I'm terrible at these kinds of promises), and if all's gonna go well, I'll merge. Thanks for all your work!

[jurf]

@Radivarig I cannot get this to work. Yes, the script does open MonoDevelop, however, it doesn't open neither the project nor the file. Just a window with the MonoDevelop homepage.

[Radivarig]

Are you missing the required additional $(Line) parameter to send to the external editor? I get the same behavior when I exclude it.

[jurf]

Nope, the line parameter is definitely set to be sent. Although for some reason Unity thinks that it should pass the same arguments as to the built-in MonoDevelop. I'll try experimenting a bit more.

Also, line number 18 is unneeded. It only produces errors since shell doesn't allow spaces before and after the equals sign.

[Radivarig]

I'm on GNU bash, version 4.3.33(1) and Unity 4.6.1f1 Strangely it works for me with spaces when I run it, so I missed to notice. I pushed the correction. But I have no idea why would Unity not send the specified args

[Radivarig]

Under what name did you save the script?

[jurf]

I just went Raw -> Save As, so it's under the original.

[jurf]

GNU bash 4.3.33(1) here.

[Radivarig]

Try now :)

[jurf]

OK, great, works now!

I think there are two (edit: three) things to be done before I can merge this:

1. Why do you symlink root to the project folder? Shouldn't you symlink the virtual C: drive, where Unity is installed?
2. We should somehow work around opening JS files, for example in the built-in editor or in a system specified editor.
3. MonoDevelop should be launched with --no-logo in the end.

Otherwise, perfect!

[Radivarig]

1) #39 Wine already symlinks C: in ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/unity3d/dosdevices along with other drives where also is Z: symlink to root! So inside monodevelop solution>Assembly-CSharp-vs>References if you rightclick>Properties on UnityEditor (or any other with error mark) all win paths to references start with Z: because Unity saves those references in Assembly-CSharp-vs.csproj like this:

<Reference Include="UnityEngine">
    <HintPath>Z:/home/radivarig/.local/share/wineprefixes/unity3d/drive_c/Program Files/Unity/Editor/Data/Managed/UnityEngine.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

You can ignore the invalid path mark as it is symlinked correctly. My guess is that monodevelop thinks there's error because of space in "Program Files" but path is in win layer environment so it isn't invalid.

2) #42 is still opened, but I'll adapt and push the suggested workaround from there.

3) If you man monodevelop you'll see that native MD has no option --nologo and it also don't show any. edit: built-in seems to ignore --nologo completely

[Radivarig]

Ideally we should use only:

1. native => #42
2. built-in => #37, outdated, --nologo is ignored
3. custom editor => no proper auto-completion

37 is a big deal for me as I need AltGr for {}[]<> (tho this is wine problem)

[Radivarig]

Note, opening .js in built-in depends on wineprefix, mine is called unity3d. Also, if you replaced MonoDevelop.exe with some script revert it to original.

[Radivarig]

Yo, did you test this?

[jurf]

Nope, hopefully I'll get to it tomorrow.

[jurf]

Tried it (in Unity 5), and bad news.

I had to delete all the *sln files to get it working and, it opens a new window every time I open a new file. "Sync MonoDevelop project" opens MonoDevelop, but without the project.

[Radivarig]

Ok, I know what's happening. I'll fix it soon-ish.

[Radivarig]

Fixed

[jurf]

Seems good! If you don't experience any more problems I think we can merge. Also, do think the Editor attaching option does anything?

[Radivarig]

No problems here. For attaching I can't find any technical info on how it's allowed, based on parameters there is no difference in how Unity communicates with builtin and external editor so my guess is it happens in project files.

[jurf]

OK, merging. I'll update the wiki too.

[jurf]

Thanks for the great work.

[Radivarig]

Glad I could contribute :)