Improve user-friendliness of defining and set/get singletons, in visual script . .

[jasperbrooks79]

Describe the project you are working on

A Tomb raider game . .

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

Right now, it's a bit complicated, esp. for new users, to define true global variables, singletons . . I was thinking, why not make a new ' place ' in the visual script editor, where one could add singletons, more easy . .

When one ' adds ' the first one, there's a question, where to ' store ' them, ie. a code resource, so one types, maybe ' my_singletons.vs ', then one can add them, and set or, get them, faster . . since these are global to any script, one would have to ' generate ' the list, for all visual scripts, ie. they'd not be local, to one script, maybe it can be made better, or have a separate panel, or so . . one could even take the more ' complex ' set - up, for get or, set a singleton, and make it into ' one ' box, called Get Singleton ' name ' . . :OO . .

Or, one could simply generate a ' default ' singleton script, instead of the user typing a name, and store it in the root res:// folder, maybe call it default_singletons.vs, like default_env.tres <3 . .

The first click, would set up a ' autoload ', for the user, and also ' enable ' it, or so . . this would improve the user - friendliness, of the singleton process, I think . . <3

I think the node-path, and all that stuff, would be implied, when creating it, so could be just one box, SET and, GET, like for normal script - local variables <3 . . . .

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Make so one can make a singleton variable, in the visual script canvas, alone, so it's faster, and ' makes ' more sense, that's all, thx . . . <3

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

See the images above, so one can make singletons, faster, and it makes more sense <3 . . .

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

I'm not sure, one can always manually create a new script, as a resource, and add it to auto-load, and then double-click it, to add a new singleton, but it's a bit 'weird', that such a useful feature, isn't easier, to access, or so . .

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

Well, would make things a bit easier, also for new users, and maybe this way, instead of using three boxes, to get, or set a singleton, one could just have a ' composite ' node or, box, like with set, get a normal variable <3 . . . Thx . . <3 It'd be a massive help, for new users, and one could even re-name singletons, to ' Global Variables ', maybe only in visual script canvas . . :OO or, write 'Global Variables (Singletons) + . . <3 . . .

It may be a bad idea, to ' call ' them Global variables, since new users won't know, what difference between a normal variable, and global variable is, from sort of, looking <3 . . .

ps. the singleton list might be some-what large, so if one could collapse it, and the same for normal variables :O . . .

[YuriSizov]

Closing this proposal as we have officially discontinued the VisualScript module. It may return in future as an engine extension, then all the feedback can be reevaluated by maintainers of that extension.

Thanks for your suggestion nonetheless!