[NEW PLUGIN] Path Forger

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Welcome to my second post and second plug in!
Path Forger Version 1.0 is now Released and its free! This plugin is for developers to quickly work with referencing objects in studio!

PLEASE LEAVE SUGESSTIONS TO MAKE IT BETTER ETC OR REQUEST FEATURES!
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GET THE PLUGIN HERE
Path Forger Plugin

Background:
I am honestly surprised this isn’t already a built in function within studio. I got annoyed at having to transverse through the the explorer to get the path to an object so I decided to create a plugin to do this for me. This plugin allows you to select an object and then it will print the path to the object in lua format. This way you can copy and paste right into your code.

FEATURES:
At the current version, the plugin comes with 1 button. You click the object you want to reference (either in the workspace or explorer) and it will print out the path!

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#2

This would be more useful if you could copy and paste the path directly into the current selected line in a script, its kinda the same but some people doesn’t have the output always open, and it may be a bit annoying.

Something like: CTRL + SHIFT + C to copy and CTRL + SHIFT + V to paste. I don’t know if you get what i mean, but overall this may be cool if you do something like this

#3

It actually kind of is.

Instance:GetFullName() returns the path

What it would look like in your plugin.

local ToolBar = plugin:CreateToolbar("Path Forger")
local FindPathButton = ToolBar:CreateButton("Print path to object","Prints the full path of the first object selected.","rbxassetid://95429555197638")
local Selection = game:GetService("Selection") 

local function ResetButtonHighlight(Button)
	Button.Enabled = false
	Button.Enabled = true
end

local function getFullPath(Selected)
	assert(Selected ~= nil, "No instances selected. Please selected one object.")
	assert(Selected ~= game, "Invalid instance Selected")
	return Selected:GetFullName()
end

FindPathButton.Click:Connect(function()
	local selected = Selection:Get()[1]
	local Path = getFullPath(selected)
	ResetButtonHighlight(FindPathButton)
	print("Full Path:", Path)
end)
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#4

Not sure if I can do that but I can try and look into it, but most of the time if your scripting you have the console open.

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#5

Thanks however this is for getting the path without having to type it out or make a script to then print its full name. If you work with vs code you can right click on something then get its path. This is meant to act like that since if you right click an object there’s no option for getting and copying the path directly.

#6

Personally I dont lol, but anyways, good plugin idea

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#7

How do u see errors or debug then lol

#8

Yeah, I get what the plugin was intended for, I was more giving feedback on how you can further improve the plugin by utilizing built-in functions. It’s really up to you in the end to decide if you want to utilize those methods.

#9

Why a plugin for this when you can instead run one line of code for the same thing?

print(game.Selection:Get()[1]:GetFullName())

If you’re worried that I wasted time writing this, it took 5 seconds.

#10

You can actually shorten it even more, you don’t even need to print it if your running it through command bar. Just put an equal sign at the beginning of the line.

=game.Selection:Get()[1]:GetFullName()

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#11

Ahh ok I understand thanks for the feedback

#12
  1. Not everyone knows how to do that
  2. I’m lazy and don’t want to have to type that everytime when I can just click a button.
#13

perhaps you could make the plugin show a breadcrumb trail label so that users don’t need to have their output open and it’ll automatically update.

#14

I think this is made more for develoeprs who use rojo or an external code editor