Menu items to log messages and clear the console

Custom menus are a great way to offer game developers easy access to your Editor Extension features. Logging actions is a good way to display and keep a record of actions performance and object properties that have been changed. In this recipe, we'll create a new menu for the Unity Editor application and a menu item that when selected logs a simple message:

How to do it...

To create a menu with a menu item to log messages to console, follow these steps:

1. In the Project panel, create a new folder, Editor.
2. In your new Editor folder, create a new C# script-class named ConsoleUtilities.cs, containing the following:

using UnityEditor;
 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Reflection;

 public class ConsoleUtilities : EditorWindow
 {
     [MenuItem("My Utilities/Clear Console")]
     public static void ClearLogConsole()
     {
         var assembly = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(SceneView));
         var type = assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.LogEntries");
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