Visual Studio has a feature that finds all “TODO” comments in your project and lists them in a convenient window. I’m wondering if anyone other than me would actually use this? Of course, you can do it with a plugin or otherwise, but it is nice to integrate into the IDE.
(please note that I’m not saying I’m going to implement this myself; I’m a VR guy!)
I only think it would be useful for me if it was capable of detecting TODO comments in the source. Otherwise, I would just use Trello.
Nevermind. Reading the OP properly this time, it is a great idea.
The downside to a plugin is you can’t view it while you’re editing the script since plugins can’t create extra panes. We could do that and create super amazing plugins though…
See, that definitely works… but the problem is reminding myself to actually do it! Maybe it doesn’t warrant such an addition to Studio, but it wouldn’t hurt!
When I was developing a plugin recently (camera waypoint plugin), I left some TODO statements in there that I forgot about until just now. It would have been helpful to have been reminded of them sooner e.g. somewhere in studio it said 10 TODO objectives or something. Not sure if this would provide a similar effect or not.
Plugins can’t display anything in the script editor window. You could just use script.Source. It doesn’t update while the script editor is open, but neither could a plugin since it can only do stuff inside the render window. Either way, this needs to be something that is visible in the script editor – plugins aren’t cut out for it yet.