Assetbrowser

[neph1]

This is a mammoth PR, but there's no other way to do it..

[neph1]

I need a break from this now...

Some outstanding issues:

• Gradle project returns a path to 'assets' rather than the project folder.
• Opening a model from the asset browser is much much slower than doing it from the assets node.
  - Some space utilization issues in the asset browser panel.
  - Previews not updating after being created?
  - Browser not resizing when layout changes
• Not recognizing projects opened after editor starts.

[neph1]

@peedeeboy Before I dig into this myself, do you know why this happens?

When I do a
projectAssetManager.getProject().getProjectDirectory();
on an Ant project, I receive the expected project folder. but when I do the same call on a Gradle project, it returns the 'assets' folder?

Pics or it didn't happen!
Ant:

Gradle:

[peedeeboy]

I came across this comment from @MeFisto94 when I was looking into the Project Asset Manager previously:

                /* Note: The ProjectAssetManager needs the Subproject's Project,
                 * because otherwise reading assets won't work (as assets is
                 * not in the scope of the parent project). But it still needs 
                 * to be added to the Parent Project's Lookup
                */
                
                /* Complicated code to find the relative path, because the 
                 * assets subproject could be stored in a folder called "foo"
                 * or "bar" and we still need to locate it correctly
                */

[neph1]

Thanks, then I know it's not a bug. I'll add some 'complicated code' of my own to circumvent it :)

[peedeeboy]

I came across this as I when I looked into get the PAM to load from assets from Gradle files on the classpath I was thinking / hoping to refactor ProjectAssetManager out to an Interface / Abstract class and have AntProjectAssetManager and GradleProjectAssetManager implementations, but that turned into a rabbit hole.....

Probably why nobody else had already done it :(

[neph1]

I won't attempt to change anything there, just handle it on the behalf of the asset browser

[neph1]

Note to self: Still need to do the ant/gradle assets switch.