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•Created by 乙ᗰᗩᑎ350᙭ on 10/20/2023 in #help

✅ Get build output directory at compile time?

The current project I'm working on is a set of plugins to be run inside another application. When I first started, I would have to relaunch the application every time I made a change to my code, which took a while. Since then, I've added a new plugin to the DEBUG build of the project which monitors the Visual Studio output directory and, if it notices a change in any of the DLL files, will find and reload the plugin that changed without restarting the application. This has been a huge help. Now, in this plugin is the absolute path of the directory to monitor

public string buildDirectory = "C:\\Users\\Temp\\.......\\bin\\Output";

public string buildDirectory = "C:\\Users\\Temp\\.......\\bin\\Output";

This has worked great while on my desktop PC, but I'd like the ability to work on the project while on my laptop or other device. Ideally, this workflow would just involve pulling/pushing from GitHub w/o needing to manually change this one string on each device. Does Visual Studio have something like a OUTPUT macro that evaluates to the build directory at compile time or something of that nature? (yes, I know C# doesn't have C-style macros so this probably isn't the right terminology) And/or could I store the the value in something like path.txt which is in my .gitignore and is substituted into the string as a precompiler step or something of that nature? I don't think there's a way to do it at runtime, because the assembly won't be run in the build directory... Thanks!

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•Created by 乙ᗰᗩᑎ350᙭ on 7/2/2023 in #help

❔ Loading a Unity Font object from an assembly's Embedded Resource

Well, I'm trying to load a font I have as a resource embedded in my C# assembly. I've tried a number of things, my most recent attempt seen here (ignore the bad variable names, I'll clean it up once I get it working):

            Shell.print("=====FONTS=====");
            string resourcePath = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames()[0];
            Stream fontStream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resourcePath);
            var tempFiles = new TempFileCollection();
            string file = tempFiles.AddExtension("otf");
            using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(file))
            {
                fontStream.CopyTo(fs);
            }
            unifont = new Font(file);
            Shell.print(unifont.characterInfo.Length);
            Shell.print("===END FONTS===");

            Shell.print("=====FONTS=====");
            string resourcePath = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames()[0];
            Stream fontStream = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resourcePath);
            var tempFiles = new TempFileCollection();
            string file = tempFiles.AddExtension("otf");
            using (FileStream fs = File.OpenWrite(file))
            {
                fontStream.CopyTo(fs);
            }
            unifont = new Font(file);
            Shell.print(unifont.characterInfo.Length);
            Shell.print("===END FONTS===");

The idea being that once I successfully load the font, it will print something other than 0. I have also tried passing the embedded "path" TextAdventure.Assets.unifont-15.0.06.otf straight to the Font constructor (both relative path & appended to the absolute path of the assembly). I have also put the .otf file in a Unity Asset Bundle and used AssetBundle.LoadFromStream(fontStream).LoadAsset<Font>("assets/unifont-15.0.06.otf") to try and grab the file. Any ideas?

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