EditorPrefs support

[rhys-vdw]

Hi, would you be interested in adding support for EditorPrefs? I feel it would be a small change given it's essentially the same API as PlayerPrefs.

(Open to submitting a PR if approved)

[Dysman]

Hi rhys-vdw,

thanks for you interest in this plugin. The funny thing is that this plugin had some EditorPrefs support planed in the beginning.
But this feature was not used from the beta testers so it get not full implemented. After some time all leftovers get removed.

Following toughs was the main reason why it was dropped:

1. Not from interest for the most User
   If you work on a project you never need it. It would be more for other tool developers they extend the editor.
2. They are the same across different projects (global)
   What is a bit against the editor opens a project concept. So it's easy possible to influence other projects.
3. Huge number of EditorPrefs
   They can be fast a huge number of EditorPref entries. What can end in a massive and most unnecessary (see 2.) overhead.
   The reordable-list that the UI based on is not very good with a big number of entries. Had already done a couple of performance optimizations.
4. Cryptic EditorPref naming
   The entries from the engine it self are not designed to get read from humans.
5. Increase the maintenance effort
   It requires more maintenance to test and keep running. Specially for the MacOS support.

But this all is not a reason to not support the feature if there is a proper use of EditorPrefs. And it sounds like you have the need ;-)
I will take a investigate if there is a proper way to support it and keep all so clean and easy as possible.

[rhys-vdw]

That all makes sense, but I'm not sure about this one:

If you work on a project you never need it. It would be more for other tool developers they extend the editor.

I would say this is would be a useful tool for anyone who is debugging an editor tool, whether they're using it internally to their project or planning to distribute it.

That said, looking at the code, I'm not sure I'd be well positioned to add this feature in a timely manner with all the different platforms (especially if it involves an optimization pass), so perhaps I ought to retract my offer.

It's a shame Unity doesn't offer a way to iterate the key/value pairs directly.

[dimmduh]

I also thought the plugin supports EditorPrefs, but no (

[rhys-vdw]

I also thought the plugin supports EditorPrefs, but no (

Haha, yeah. I think if you look at the source you'll understand why.

[Dysman]

Have investigated what would be necessary to add this feature.
It's a bit of work but possible. Will take a look if I find some time for a prototype soon.

[dimmduh]

I'm using this now https://github.com/sabresaurus/PlayerPrefsEditor.git