Get Field Selection

Scripting
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I’m working on an EditorWindow and I need the selected object in the window (the inspector) NOT the scene view, so no Selection.activeObject, or anything like that. How can I get that object? I know there’s GUIUtility.GetControlID(), but I have no idea which field is which and I would prefer to just get the object.

Thanks.

2

Selection.activeObject does get the object that is showing in the inspector.

3

Dude… please, I explicitly said no comments about Selection.activeObject. I don’t need the selected scene object. I need the selected field that is in the selected object in the scene view. Field, as in variable, belonging to the selected object.

4

Then maybe you shouldn’t refer to it as an Object, but instead a Field.

5

Sorry, I just phrased it as an object, because I needed the object, not a number that represents the object, or something and I believe I actually wrote “field” in there somewhere. But it doesn’t matter because I found the solution.

6

No wait, actually it’s not solved, tried using Object.GetHashCode with GUIUtility,GetControlID(), but didn’t work, unfortunately.

7

Okay I figured out I need to use GUIUtility.keyboardControl, but now I just need a way to get the control id for an object with the object.

8

Are you saying you want the Object from the currently selected EditorGUI.ObjectField?

9

Yes, but doesn’t matter actually figured it out for real this time. I use GUI.SetNextControlName().