First of all, thanks for the plugin. A life saver!

Since the latest Godot build 3.2.4.rc3 the plugin-refresher can't find any my plugins.

I tried to fix the plugin-refresher myself but I can't really find where it is going wrong.

I'm completely lost so I'm creating this issue just in case you know what might have changed :(

There are no mentions of the location where is the refresh button. It was mentioned "in toolbar" which begs the question of what is the "toolbar". I thought it was above viewport where usually plugin buttons are located. After 10 minutes of searching for information, I accidentally looked in the corner, next to GLES2/ GLES3 menu, and found it there.

This is a very useful plugin. However, as I am developing my own plugin I am finding it necessary to have to reload my plugin frequently. It would be nice if the plugin refresher would continue to stay on last plugin selected. Not too painful, but it would be useful I think especially in the case I described.

Visiting https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/248 the link repo is https://github.com/willnationsdev/godot-plugin-refresher which is behind 4 commits / 16 month older.

Hey, this might be a known issue, but I was trying to get this plugin to work in Godot 4, and it would spit out an error whenever I tried to activate the plugin in my project settings.

I saw someone made a PR for this, and this fix seemed to get me going - maybe it should be merged?
#28

We are listing the addons directory and running a while loop to get each folder and we check if it has a plugin.cfg file and we update the options button and we save cfg file

the problem is, FileSystem emits filesystem_changed whenever any file changes like when you save your project or importing assets .. etc, we need to make it only check if the changes happens inside the addons folder.

i was thinking about many ways , to check if files size changed ? last modified date ?

then how ?

the only way i can find since directories don't have last modified date is that we list the addons directory and we check the names of the folders if it doesn't exist in our plugins dictionary then we refresh, if the folders are the same, then we return.

this will produce only one issue, if someone removed an addon folder from the OS filesystem and added another folder with the same name but different contents and returned back to godot. because godot will not emit the signal until the user focus the godot window. and the while loop will not recognize any changes so it will keep the old addon information.

if we made this enhancement then we should add this as a warning in the README file.

I installed to res://addons/plugin-refresher and the dropdown was empty. I noticed these errors in Output:

 res://addons/plugin-refresher/plugin_refresher_plugin.gd:69 - Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'update_items' in base 'HBoxContainer'.
 res://addons/plugin-refresher/plugin_refresher_plugin.gd:100 - Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'select_plugin' in base 'HBoxContainer'.

After debugging for a bit, I saw this warning:

 scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:157 - Couldn't load external resource: res://addons/godot-plugin-refresher/plugin_refresher.gd

I realized that the plugin required installing as "godot-plugin-refresher". Maybe this isn't unique to this plugin? (I'm new to godot.) Maybe would be nice to have install instructions?

Currently, the list of displayed plugins is what it actually represents: the directory names. The problem is that the names might be in lowercase, UPPERCASE, snake_case, kebab-case etc.

Do you think it would be better to retrieve the actual plugin name from plugin.cfg? I know that the underlying system relies on plugin names as determined by directory names, but for visual stuff this should be fine.

Somewhat related to #8.

I've accidentally reloaded a plugin which was supposed to be disabled because it's not functioning (aka WIP). I wonder whether it might be worth to:

• hide initially disabled plugins from the popup;
• disallow to reload disabled plugins, emitting a warning.

So the idea is to only to reload plugins which are actually enabled.

This could be made optional via plugin settings support which was added in #3.

Not that it's critical though because the reloaded plugin stays on now, making it less likely to reload a WIP plugin.

Looks like the .cfg file wasn't updated.

After a fresh install on Godot 3.1, the button is functional but invisible.

Refreshing an EditorImportPlugin does not seem to work as expected.

Tested plugins:

• https://github.com/Rubonnek/godot-libgdx-texture-packer-atlas-importer
• https://github.com/vnen/godot-tiled-importer