Tooltips in Editor Windows?

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Hey guys,

Do you know any alternative to the built-in Tooltip Atrribute which works with editor windows? The current is, as noted in the release notes, only for Inspectors, means only avaiable in MonoBehaviours. But I saw lots of other Editor Windows having Tooltips, so how would you implement it? Do I have to write my own code?

 [Tooltip("Some Tooltip")]

Works in a MonoBehaviour, where 'Tooltip' basically describes the TooltipAttribute Class. However, in an Editor Window, theres no Tooltip rather than the TooltipAttribute, and using either of those results in errors:

 Unexpected symbol `['

and all following code is 'unexpected'.

Do you know any common approach to this problem? Seneral

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Answer by S_Darkwell · Mar 17, 2015 at 12:16 PM

You would actually use GUIContent to create a tooltip. Example:

 [CustomEditor(typeof(Example))]
 public class ExampleEditor : Editor
 {
     private void OnEnable()
     {
         Target = (Example) target;
     }
     
     public override void OnInspectorGUI()
     {
         Target.testFloat = EditorGUILayout.FloatField(new GUIContent("Test Float", "Here is a tooltip"), Target.testFloat);
     }
 }

It took me quite a while to find this myself.

Hope that helps!

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Digx7 · Jun 07, 2019 at 03:01 AM 0

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It worked! Thanks so much, I felt like I was slamming my head against a wall all day trying to figure this out. :D

S_Darkwell Digx7 · Jun 07, 2019 at 10:55 AM 0

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Glad to have helped. :) Be well!

Kay-Mighty · Jun 01 at 10:33 PM 0

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Glad I found this, I've been searching for over 40 minutes!

Sirix · Jul 14 at 04:47 PM 0

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Muchas gracias (Thank you very much)

unity_8XUtDRn37DKFfA · Jul 17 at 10:25 AM 0

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This worked like a charm and helped me immensely, thanks! I recommend making the tooltip a variable if it can appear in multiple places, or if it's too long.

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