So, I was going through the scripting reference in VS, and I came across textarea in the editor section, and I thought that would be very useful, but as I was trying to write it in C#, I have no clue of how to use it.
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Bump?
If you’re talking about displaying a textarea in the Inspector panel for a string variable of your component then you can create a script like this (this script must reside in a folder called “Editor” in your project):
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
[CustomEditor(typeof(Test))] // 'Test' here is your component class name
public class TestUI : Editor {
public override void OnInspectorGUI ()
{
Test test = target as Test;
EditorGUILayout.LabelField("My field");
test.myField = EditorGUILayout.TextArea(test.myField);
}
}
If you’re talking about using a textarea in the GUI on your game play then take a look at the reference page
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Can you give a little more info on this? Like, how to set it up properly? Cause I have no clue of how to use this :S
This is the script
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEditor;
[CustomEditor(typeof(Note))]
public class Note : MonoBehaviour {
//The Skin/Background of the GUIStyle
public GUISkin mycustomSkin;
//The Text Of The Note
public string Text = "Insert Your Text Here!";
void Start () {
//AutoSet the Name
transform.name = "Note";
//If there is no collider on the note add one
if (collider == null) {
Debug.LogError ("No Collider On Note " + name + ". Add A Collider!");
}
}
void OnGUI()
{
Text = EditorGUI.TextArea(new Rect(10, 10, 200, 100), Text);
}
}
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The link has a nice solution, I’ll rewrite it here just for people who tend to scroll to the bottom quickly ignoring links:
Add the TextArea attribute to your string field:
[TextArea(3, 10)]
public string messageText;
1st param is min number of lines to show, second param is number of lines from which you start showing scrollbar.
See doc on Unity - Scripting API: TextAreaAttribute.TextAreaAttribute
I found that the scrollbar appears a little before reaching max number of lines, but anyway.
It also works on Scriptable Objects.
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