CustomEditor Question

Unity Engine
1

Hi,

I need to access a method within the class for which my custom editor class is helping inspect.

[ CustomEditor ( typeof ( MyClass ) ) ]
public class MyClassInspector : Editor {…}

All the examples that I have found are using FindProperty to get access to the variables defined within MyClass via SerializedProperty. Is there a way that I can get a reference to MyClass, so that I can actually call one of it’s methods? I expected to get it via the “target” variable somehow, but I can’t seem to find the way.

Hope that’s clear enough,

Thanks
Jim

2

You want to use the target member in the Editor class to access the object being edited by your custom inspector class:

[CustomEditor(typeof(MyClass))]
public class MyClassInspector : Editor
{
    private void Foo()
    {
        // Call method on class who's inspector is modified by this class.
        ((MyClass)target).Bar();
    }
}

A cleaner way would be:

[CustomEditor(typeof(MyClass))]
public class MyClassInspector : Editor
{

    private MyClass targetClass
    {
        get { return (MyClass)target; }
    }

    private void Foo()
    {
        // Call method on class who's inspector is modified by this class.
        targetClass.Bar();
    }
}
3

NIce! thanks.

I had used: (MyClass)target.Bar()
instead of ((MyClass)target).Bar()

Picky compiler… :slight_smile: