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Question by growling_egg · Jul 08 at 07:42 PM · editorwindow guilayout

Trying to make draggable buttons on a background in an editor tool

I'm making a new EditorWindow-derived tool but I'm new to Unity's editor tools. I've figured out how to make labels, boxes, and buttons, but the trouble is, it just lays these elements out linearly in the order in which they're scripted.

This seems like a reasonable default, but I would really like to make it so that I could drag my buttons around, the way you can do in a visual scripting tool. I also have a background image I would like to drag the buttons over, but at first glance of the GUILayout API, it doesn't seems like it's meant for this kind of heavy UI lifting.

Thanks for any tips!

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