What is the best way to create custom inspectors?

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Hi everyone! I am messing around with the custom inspectors, but I noticed a vast lexicon around the topic, and now I don't know the best way to create one with advanced controls with serialized properties. For instance: When should I use property drawers, or just a custom inspector that extends Editor? Or, why certain controls are so hard to implement, like the min max slider with a serialized float variable? Anyway, its all too confusing for me now...

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Answer by frarees · Mar 26, 2014 at 07:41 PM

Here's a MinMaxSlider implementation I did some time ago.

https://gist.github.com/frarees/9791517

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ronaldosilva · Mar 27, 2014 at 02:06 AM 0

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Hi man! You are really trying to help me! haha I appreciate it! As I understood, you are kinda creating a new property with this code, right? And how would you implement it (use it) in a custom editor class? Would you show it to me? I will try to reason over the code you provided anyway. If I succeed, you will be the first one to put the hands on my Flies System as a prize for your good will.

frarees · Mar 27, 2014 at 09:23 AM 0

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If you want to use it in a custom editor class, then use PropertyField. Fast example:

 [MinMaxSlider (0f, 100f)]
 public Vector2 myVector;

OnInspectorGUI:

 EditorGUILayout.PropertyField (serializedObject.FindProperty ("myVector"));

ronaldosilva · Mar 27, 2014 at 03:07 PM 0

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Great! Will test it right now! Thanks!

ronaldosilva · Mar 27, 2014 at 03:53 PM 0

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Great! It worked, now I am trying to add the labels that show the current Min and Max values on the inspector. Any ideas?

Thanks man! Helped a lot!

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ronaldosilva · Mar 27, 2014 at 04:02 PM 1

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Yeah I am editing the MinMaxSliderDrawer to add some labels and stuff! Now I understant this PropertyDrawer thing. Nifty. Have a nice day man!

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Answer by MadRobot · May 31, 2016 at 07:09 PM

To create a custom slider in a custom editor inspector is very easy.

Assuming you have already saved 'target' to a variable called 'source' in OnEnable()...

     const string tooltip = "T$$anonymous$$s is a slider";
     const string sliderLabel = "POWER";
     float minValue = 1.0f;
     float maxValue = 3.7f;

     void OnInspectorGUI()
     {
         source.myVariable = EditorGUILayout.Slider(new GUIContent(sliderLabel, tooltip), source.myVariable, minValue, maxValue);
     }

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