Can't type into text fields in the inspector

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Whenever the inspector is attached to another window (if that’s how you say it) i can not type in the inspector. i can however change values by clicking and dragging my mouse but that is much less accurate. But when i drag the inspector out so its just a separate floating window everything works perfectly fine and i can type again. i’m a beginner and was working on my first full project as this happened so kind of annoying that unity is like that to me on my first game.

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The same thing happens to me!! It happens when I click the X button to close Unity or any of those 3 buttons. Nobody answered this? That bug is very annoying…

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Please file a bug report so we can investigate.

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I faced the same problem. The solution is :

  1. go to layout.
  2. set the layout to default.
  3. now everything is working again.

I think setting it to default defaults everything.

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That worked instantly thank you

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Thanks, I had the same problem and this worked! Does anyone knows what’s the cause?

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Thank You soooooooooooo much
you saved my life

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I had this issue in 2020.1.11f1 setting layout to default fixed it as well.

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I just found this thread because I was having this problem on 2019.3.6f1. Normally I use my own custom layout Marty1 but I had messed with it yesterday when I lost my Scene Gizmo and I was trying to get it back. I noticed that my Layout was on Default when I was having the problem. After switching the Layout back to Marty1 it fixed the problem, so apparently switching between layouts resets whatever it is that causes the problem. I do not know exactly when I lost the ability to type in the Transform fields. All I know is I went to work on an animation and like the other posters said, I could adjust Transform values by dragging but not by typing - very imprecise. THANKS for the clue how to fix. I am a beginner at Unity.
p.s. I am considering making a Marty2 layout that is just like my Marty1 and then if this happens again I can just toggle between them.

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How is toggling between layouts or doing a dance between game tab, asset tab, etc. any kind of solution?
This bug presents itself constantly. I do not have time to ‘fix’ the issue every time it does.
I have tried all of the above solutions, but the issue just reappears again within a few minutes.

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Did anyone ever file a bug report? We could fix it if you did :wink:

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I could have filed the bug report if am sure about the steps to reproduce. Unfortunately, there is no specific project or version where it happens. This appears to be happening randomly even in past unity versions as well. Currently I am using Unity 2019.4.24f1 it’s still there. Is it necessary to add steps to reproduce? I wonder if it never happened for team at Unity. Or it is being ignored.

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I just had something that looked very similar to this issue - I can’t click, focus, and type into numeric and text input fields on the inspector. For me changing the layout didn’t help, but undocking the inspector made the fields editable again. As soon as the inspector was re-docked, the problem came back, and it’s a pain to use floating over the top of the IDE.

I’ve submitted a bug report, but it was definitely working fine when I first opened the Unity IDE, so I get the impression it’s something that was triggered by some other factor - perhaps just because Unity was open for a certain period of time, perhaps some interaction with Visual Studio (where I was editing scripts at the time), who knows.

For me, closing and re-opening the IDE fixed the issue at least for now.

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Mine entered a weird state where I couldn’t type in any text boxes, and my cursor had to become a “slider” to drag left/right and that was the only way to change any values. Not sure if this is a “feature” but no idea why anyone would want to use it this way. Restarting Unity fixes the issue.

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Thanks it solved my issue too!

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i just had to restart unity and thats it

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How is this STILL not fixed?

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I don’t believe we have had a bug report yet. It seems hard to reproduce and we have been unable to reproduce it also. Hard to fix something when you don’t know what’s going wrong and there’s no reproduction.

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I am wandering that Unity can be so careless and they themselves have not find it and one irresponsible person with a Tag of “Unity Technologies” telling others to file a bug and believe they need to wait for big reports, May be because of your careless responses no body bother even to file the bug report.

Steps to reproduce

  • Create a public or SerializedField as String array
  • If you keep the Game Tab in the same window as of your inspector and other tabs, you won’t be able to type anything in it.

Workaround: Either move the Game tab window out or inspector window out it works.

Following is the one liner you can test it with

[SerializeField] public string[] randomName;

and then test it in Inspector, keep the game tab all in same editor window.

Please let me know where to file the bug, I will do.

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I have created a bug but I don’t know if I have created it at the right place