Feature Request - Custom Labels

[BlueDev5]

well i am working on customisable labels but i've an issue that is, the labels only align in a specific zoom level so if I change the zoom level they will start misaligning.

[BlueDev5]

Maybe having the current zoom level of project window might help

[BlueDev5]

finally got the alignment and custom color now i think i'll add selection background

[WooshiiDev]

Hey there, Folder Icons was made specifically for Icons only.

When handling text and highlighting there's a lot more that is required and each new feature will require further Rect calculations. Also have to take into account the sidebar too.

I'd be happy to add them though.

[BlueDev5]

Hey i too was trying to get this and it seems to work (currrently only for noremal view not for side or tree view) With Large Zoom amount With Low Zoom Amount

[WooshiiDev]

If you're going ahead to implement this yourself, it would be nice to know a set of requirements you want and a list of what you're adding.

If you'd like to do a PR on this too I'll be happy to look over it too.

[WooshiiDev]

I've noticed you've not made a fork of this to apply your own changes, so I'd recommend on doing so. If you do not want to make a fork we can discuss things about adding custom labels.

[BlueDev5]

If you're going ahead to implement this yourself, it would be nice to know a set of requirements you want and a list of what you're adding.

So my plan is to tweak the look of the custom folders so that they fit nicely with the default project view Here's the list of things i'll change/add

1. Custom colors for labels
2. Custom selection color with that round fading image you can see in my last reply in blue color on the editor folder
3. And i also changed that blue rect for selection that you had with color tint(available as an overload for GUI.DrawTexure, to give that native project view effect)

[BlueDev5]

I've noticed you've not made a fork of this to apply your own changes, so I'd recommend on doing so. If you do not want to make a fork we can discuss things about adding custom labels.

I have not created a fork yet because currently the side view and tree view are messed up, but I'll create one after finishing them

btw if by requirements you mean, the dependecies then that is none I don't have any file/folder/asset that my custom labels need.

[BlueDev5]

Side View:

Tree View:

Project View:

Done With Label, tomorrow I'll refactor the code and I'll create fork in the 2-3 days. Also I'll Move the Folder Icon asset in the assets folder for easy access.

[WooshiiDev]

Also I'll Move the Folder Icon asset in the assets folder for easy access.

I'm not sure what you're referring to; if you mean the settings scriptable, its it's better to keep it all self contained within the FolderIcons folder.

Few questions when it comes to the behaviour:

• What do the settings look like with the functionality of the selection and label colour?
• Is the selection color global? I think that would be best as it could get confusing having a lot of switched selection colours.
• Is the selection fade optional? As you've added in a left-to-right fade, can you set a colour on both sides?

Looking great though, cheers for taking the time to do this 🙂 👏

[BlueDev5]

Well yeah i Was reffering to the settings scriptable but if you say I won't move it.

Settings:

no the selection Color is not global but if you say i might consider adding an option for global selection color. Also the fade is not optional for now but I was thinking about making it optional.

[WooshiiDev]

That looks perfectly fine! I've got some changes coming along the way to clean up the inspector but that's later down the line 🙂

Yeah the only things I'd recommend are:

• Add an optional global colour and have it on by default. This is to make specific selection optional and per user preference. I'd also recommend (to avoid confusion) to add a boolean that allows specific folders to "override" the colour. If the boolean is on then the folder will show a colour option for itself directly.
• I think specifying two colours for the selection is a nice idea. It provides more customization and I can assume a lot of users would want a solid colour across the text.
• A final thought - are the default colours for both dark and light mode provided for both labels and selection? This is just to make sure there's no confusion or altered colours. We can't promise all users will want custom colours.

[BlueDev5]

• Add an optional global colour and have it on by default

Yes I'll get it done And btw it was kinda confusing that what you meant by 2 colours for Selection? There's 1 color for both light and dark mode(for all colors).

[WooshiiDev]

Since you currently have a fade for the selection colour, having a colour for the left and right of the selection would allow more customization.

If someone would like a fade, they can just set the colour alpha to zero.

[BlueDev5]

Ok I actually don't have much experience with gradients but i'll try to do it. And also i Added an enum for easily swithcing selection type between None, SolidColor, Fade To Left, Fade To Right.

[WooshiiDev]

How is the fade done currently? If you had a fork I could take a look and help you out 🙂

If it's easier to avoid gradients for now, they can be added later down the line

[BlueDev5]

If it's easier to avoid gradients for now, they can be added later down the line

Yeah coz currently I am using DrawTexture which does not support gradients and by default no materials allow gradients so i guess We'll add the later.

How is the fade done currently?

I created a few pngs for the fade gradients and put them in the resources folder, and whenever I need them I just Go Resources.Load(). But in the case of allowing gradients with multiple key it's really hard to get them.

[BlueDev5]

Hey Good News I got gradients done, here's how they look Tree View:

Project View:

[BlueDev5]

Btw I just changed the Selection Color with Selection Gradient. And then generate a 64 * 1 texture based on the gradient. and draw it as narmal with GUI.DrawTexture

[BlueDev5]

Also I have a question, do you know how i can hide certain property of an element in reorderable list? Basically being able to hide label selection gradient in all elements of reorderable list on the basis of the useGlobalSelectionGradient.

[BlueDev5]

Got The global gradients, here are the results; With Global Gradient:

Without Global Gradient:

[BlueDev5]

Now I think it's pretty much Done just need to refactor and a fork will be live

[BlueDev5]

I am done with basic refactoring, now I'm creating a fork and before merging you can review the code if you like.

[BlueDev5]

Done with the fork, it was quite hard as I haven't created a pull request ever in my life (also I'm a newbie to git and github) Now you can merge it after checking the source code and then either I or you can create a tag/release

[BlueDev5]

After you would merge the pull request I'll like to create a post on reddit and also will try to get your asset featured in one of the videos of a youtube channel, like Code Monkey who creates monthly videos featuring his favourite free and paid assets on unity's asset store.

[WooshiiDev]

Hey there, I've responded on the pull request you did (#3) as there are some changes and issues that current occur.

I've also changed the branch to v0.2 as there are other checks and additions I need to do before releasing the next version.

If any of the things I've mentioned are difficult to add then no worries about it and I can add some issues to fix them before release 🙂

After you would merge the pull request I'll like to create a post on reddit and also will try to get your asset featured in one of the videos of a youtube channel, like Code Monkey who creates monthly videos featuring his favourite free and paid assets on unity's asset store.

I thank you, but there's no need to do this, I normally advertise these myself 🙂

[WooshiiDev]

Keeping this open until the feature has been added to the main branch version.

[BlueDev5]

Hey So I'm back from hoping distros twice in the last 2 weeks (coz I switched to arch and then realized unity doesn't support arch so had to switch back to mint). I made a small but kinda necessary tweak to the way label selection gradients work. So before the fix the texture use to show the selection was generated everytime the user clicked on the folder which was ineffecient and many times there was a noticible time gap between the click and the texture appearing. But now Whenever you add an icon to the icons list it also caches a texture which is used for drawing on the folder and now it seems to be much faster than before. Haven't pushed it yet.

[BlueDev5]

Btw I noticed that there's a major thing missing, when Getting the alignment of labels. Things weren't 100% aligning and I wasn't sure that the alignment will not break on someone else's desktop, to overcome this I created a box(which resembeled the surrounding color) before rendering the label so that no one sees what's behind the label. But the issue is that it also hides the foldout option on the Side view gets hidden. So we'll have to manually add one.

[BlueDev5]

This is what I got at best As You can see there's a pretty bad looking gap of blue color, as there's nothing hiding the gap(and that's why I added that box). BTW we do have the option to like revamp the whole side view by basically hiding what unity shows and putting our own stuff.