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Question by BHS · May 22, 2012 at 07:20 AM · variableinspectornote

Notes or Bubble Window for Variables in Inspector Giving Help?

Is it possible to make a note bubble by hovering your mouse over a variable? This bubble or window would basically be a brief description of the variable you hover over with the mouse.

How would I do this I looked all through the web and in all the script references.

I'm writing in js and it cannot be using class LookLikeControlsInspector extends EditorWindow { just a normal js script.

Or can you use this within a normal js script? Can you mix the two?

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For a visual, exactly how the audio source does it. When you mouse over the different settings, it gives a description.

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Answer by usergame · Mar 29, 2017 at 04:37 PM

I realize this is an old question but I answered a more recent one yesterday. I was looking for a solution to this and couldn't find one elegant enough so I rolled my own simple solution. Shared on Github for free. See this forum post for more details:

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/helpattribute-allows-you-to-use-helpbox-in-the-unity-inspector-window.462768/

Hope this helps someone out who's looking for a solution :)

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Answer by Edy · Sep 18, 2014 at 02:24 PM

Use GUIContent for displaying a tooltip when the mouse is over the controls. From GUI Basics at the docs:

 function OnGUI () 
     {
     // This line feeds "This is the tooltip" into GUI.tooltip
     GUI.Button (Rect (10,10,100,20), GUIContent ("Click me", "This is the tooltip"));
     // This line reads and displays the contents of GUI.tooltip
     GUI.Label (Rect (10,40,100,20), GUI.tooltip);
     }


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Answer by Tim Falken · Jan 11, 2013 at 11:13 AM

I'm lookin for this too, so far the only solution that does exactly what i want is this

http://u3d.as/content/biometric-games-as/pimp-my-editor-tooltips/39R

But i don't want to pay for it, as it isn't that important.

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