Can I change inspector 'Element 0' to something else?

Questions & Answers
1

Ok, I know the trick of having a public string as the first element of a class that can change the name of the Element.

I’m wondering if I can change the whole thing without having to do that. I’m guessing a custom inspector like here: How can I recreate the Array Inspector element for a custom Inspector GUI? - Unity Answers

But what I’d like to have is something like:

Enemy 1
Enemy 2
Enemy 3

etc. instead of Element, have that come up automatically.

3

@artie

Just had that propblem)

Custom function for arrays in Editor or PropertyDrawer instead of EditorGuiLayout.PropertyField();

 public void ShowArrayProperty(SerializedProperty list)
    {
        EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(list);

        EditorGUI.indentLevel += 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < list.arraySize; i++)
            {
                  EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(list.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i),  
                  new GUIContent ("Bla" + (i+1).ToString())); 
            }            
            EditorGUI.indentLevel -= 1;
    }

So you have:

Bla 1
Bla 2
Bla 3

Hope it would help someone :slight_smile:

6

#if UNITY_EDITOR
public string Name;
#endif

I’ll go one-up on you @COAForce :wink:

In my opinion this is the simplest and best way. Means you don’t have any unwanted serialized data hanging around in your build.111801-unity-array-naming.png

2

In a PropertyDrawer you can do this by changing the GUIContent label like so:
label.text = “test”;

4

Add this at the start:
public string name;

5

For those who are having this problem.
This is my solution

public class PropertyWindow : EditorWindow
{
private void ArrayGUI(SerializedProperty property, string itemType, ref bool visible)
        {
            visible = EditorGUILayout.Foldout(visible, property.name);
            if (visible)
            {
                EditorGUI.indentLevel++;
                SerializedProperty arraySizeProp = property.FindPropertyRelative("Array.size");
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(arraySizeProp);

                for (int i = 0; i < arraySizeProp.intValue; i++)
                {
                    EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(property.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i), new GUIContent(itemType + i.ToString()), true);
                }
                EditorGUI.indentLevel--;
            }
        }
}

How to use

 private void OnGUI()
 {
       ArrayGUI(property, "Name", ref listVisibilityAttack);
 }

Hope this helps!.

7

You could also write it lthis way, in case you wanted the name to match a different variable. :slight_smile:

public struct Enemy
{
    public string name;
    public string surname;
    public string description;

    string Name { get { return surname; } }
}