how to make textArea or a textfield uneditable?

Questions & Answers
1

I just want it to display text. so it's not modifyable. How could it be done? or is there some better way to display text than text area or text field?

5

Here’s another option which provides select/copy abilities…

void ReadOnlyTextField(string label, string text)
{
	EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
	{
		EditorGUILayout.LabelField(label, GUILayout.Width(EditorGUIUtility.labelWidth - 4));
		EditorGUILayout.SelectableLabel(text, EditorStyles.textField, GUILayout.Height(EditorGUIUtility.singleLineHeight));
	}
	EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();
}
2

You can use GUI.Label or GUI.Box (if you want a background) instead

If you want to make a textbox uneditable, just don't store the return from the textbox function. It'll only change if you're storing the new value to the variable you're displaying

3

An even better way of getting the textfield format but leave it uneditable like a lable, is to make a label with a textfield format, like so:

GUI.Label(Rect(x,y,width,height),VariableName,"TextField");
6

I use the following code to have uneditable (but selectable and copyable) text with text-scrollbars:

void ReadOnlyTextField(string text, float Height)
{
    scrollPosition = GUILayout.BeginScrollView(scrollPosition, GUILayout.Height(Height));
    {
        // Readonly TextArea with working scrollbars
        GUILayout.TextArea(text, EditorStyles.textField, GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true));
    }
    GUILayout.EndScrollView();
}

The GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true) makes the text-scrollbars work.

4

tihs code is true for you:

GUI.TextField(Rect(x,y,width,height)),text,“TextField”);

just don’t save return value from GUI.TextField

7

Surround it with DisableGroup

EditorGUI.BeginDisabledGroup(true);
EditorGUILayout.TextField("ID", "Some Unique ID");
EditorGUI.EndDisabledGroup();