Display Object Components In Custom GUI Editor

Unity Engine
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I’ve been trying to figure out a way I could display Materials and or Object Components in a Custom Editor Window, I would like to implement something similar to the way unity has their drag and drop materials / components set up, however I need to create my own for a class project (and for other personal use)…
This is what I have so far, am I going about it the right way?

  Renderer renderer = Selection.activeGameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>();
       if(renderer != null)
        {
            objMaterial = renderer.sharedMaterial;
            displayMaterial = // Editor GUI Layout of some kind
            // if (displayMaterial != objMaterial {SetDisplayMatToObj();}
        }
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No, you’d better use standard inspectors. Check out in reference source on the githb how inspector window is implemented and do the same.

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You can use Editor.CreateEditor to get the editor for the UnityEngine.Object that has been drag n dropped to your window. Then you can call OnInspectorGUI on the editor to draw its GUI.

For the drag n drop you can check for the DragPerform event and get the drag n dropped objects via DragAndDrop.objectReferences.

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If anyone is currently searching for a similar answer I was able to achieve my result using

public class BasicObjectSpawner : EditorWindow
{
GameObject objToSpawn;
bool allowSceneObjects;

objToSpawn = EditorGUILayout.ObjectField("Prefab To Spawn", objToSpawn, typeof(GameObject), allowSceneObjects) as GameObject;
}

and then later add a function to instantiate the object, currently looking into how to do the same with script and then display the components

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