Embed UI Toolkit Editor Inside Another UI Toolkit Editor?

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I have a GameObject with a reference to a ScriptableObject that has a UI Toolkit Editor. The goal is to draw that Editor if the ScriptableObject is assigned. With IMGUI I used this approach:

[CustomEditor(typeof(MyClass))]
class MyEditor : Editor
{
    MyClass myClass;

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        myClass = (MyClass)target;
    }
    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        Editor editor = CreateEditor(myClass.scriptable);
        editor.OnInspectorGUI();
    }
}

With UI Toolkit I tried this, but the Editor seems detached from the ScriptableObject:

[CustomEditor(typeof(MyClass))]
class MyEditor : Editor
{
    MyClass myClass;

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        myClass = (MyClass)target;
    }
    public override VisualElement CreateInspectorGUI()
    {
        var root = new VisualElement();

        var editor = CreateEditor(myClass.scriptable);
        root.Add(editor.CreateInspectorGUI());

        return root;
    }
}

All of the values are default values and no changes are saved. Any idea on how to get this to work?

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Calling CreateInspectorGUI() will only create the ui, without binding it.

What you can try:

var editor = CreateEditor(myClass.scriptable);
var inspector = editor.CreateInspectorGUI();
root.Add(inspector);
inspector.Bind(editor.serializedObject);

return root;

Usually you don’t need to Bind because the InspectorElement does it for you.

Depending on your editor version, YMMV, as there were a few related issues that were fixed in the past. Let me know if that helps

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Just tested it and it worked! Thanks for the help.

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