Show play/pause state of editor in IDE status bar

[oxysoft]

The resharper-unity plugin offers an action to switch between play/pause mode in the Editor and it is displayed as a toggle in the Search Everywhere Action popup (CTRL-SHIFT-A).

A common manipulation when I am debugging and hit a breakpoint is to pause the editor from within Rider, that way the game does not immediately resume when I resume execution in Rider, allowing me to inspect the state of the game or more carefully step through the next few frames.

However, the pause/play state is only shown in the Search Everywhere popup (as far as I can tell), which makes it less efficient to use, especially when mapping the action to a keyboard shortcut. A nice little indicator in the IDE status bar would be appreciated. Cheers!

[van800]

There is already one. In the right bottom part

[oxysoft]

Are you talking about this icon?

It does reflect whether the editor is in edit or play mode which is good, but it doesn't seem to reflect pausing.

[van800]

Yes, it doesn't. Would it be enough, if we add pausing state to it?

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[oxysoft]

That'd be perfect, thanks.

[citizenmatt]

What about the play/pause icons in the toolbar at the top of the window?

[van800]

Yeah, they are actually reflecting the state. @oxysoft do they work for you?

[oxysoft]

Hmm I'm guessing they must be working, however I have the toolbar disabled to save space/remove distractions since I don't really use it.

[oxysoft]

OK so just to confirm, the toolbar buttons do work fine. For now I will map the toolbar to a quickly accessible shortcut so that I can see the play/pause state at a glance when needed. In any case, alternating the inner 'play icon' of the status bar Unity indicator with pause as well would be a nice subtle addition too.

In reality I also normally keep the status bar off and toggle it with a shortcut, so it's mostly the same for me either way. Still, I generally prefer the status bar over the toolbar since it provides me with a variety of potentially useful information, whereas the toolbar is more or less an agglomeration of buttons that I either never use or access exclusively through the keyboard.

[citizenmatt]

Request for icon: RIDER-31725

[citizenmatt]

Fixed with #1301