How to use Resources in custom EditorWindow?

[Statement]

I want to make a bit of a stylish custom editor window so I need to be able to use Textures and GUISkins. What is the preferred way of making use of Textures and GUISkins? I assume there are two ways of going about.

1. Use Default References.
2. Use Resources.Load.

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• Are there other approaches?
• What approach is preferred?
• Does using Resources.Load mean that those resources would be included in any build?

[Bunny83]

Sure, if you place them in the `Resources` folder it will be included in your builds.

Inside the editor you can use the AssetDatabase to load an asset at any time. You can even use WWW with "file:///" to load a texture for your editor scripts. WWW is restricted to the supported types of course (audio, movie, texture, assetBundles and the raw data).

So i guess for a GUISkin it would be the best to place it inside the editor folder and use the AssetDatabase.