Is there a keyboard shortcut for setting an object active/inactive?

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While I’m browsing the Hierarchy using the keyboard, is there a shortcut to toggle active on the selected object, or am I forced to click the inspector using the mouse?

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There is a menu item for this now. GameObject → Toggle Active State, with shortcut Alt-Shift-A

Not sure when they removed this but you can no longer use the Alt+Shift+A hotkey anymore.

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Toggle Active/Inactive state of any selected Game object in Unity Hierarchy use Alt + Shift + A. Its working in Unity Version 2018.3.0f2.

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There are no shortcuts that I know of. However,
Similar to Customize shortcuts in the unity-editor, you can create a menu item with a shortcut that does this for you.

Create a folder called Editor and inside of it, create a c# script and name it MyShortcuts.cs and paste this in:

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

public class MyShortcuts : Editor
{
  [MenuItem("GameObject/ActiveToggle _a")]
  static void ToggleActivationSelection()
  {
    var go = Selection.activeGameObject;
    go.SetActive(!go.activeSelf);
  }
}

Now whenever you select an object if you press “a”, it activates/deactivates it. Note that the caps lock should be on. I couldn’t figure out why it needs it to be caps lock, but it does work :slight_smile:

I hope this answers your question.

Thanks for this Aram. A useful modification is to toggle the state of all selected objects, replacing lines 9 and 10 with: foreach(GameObject go in Selection.gameObjects) go.SetActive(!go.activeSelf);

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This works brilliantly, thanks a lot! Just a note to others, the Editor folder can just be placed in the Assets folder (there will probably already be one there, there was for me).

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When I'm typing text into the Text UI component in Unity the 'A' key gets consumed now and I have to edit this script every time I want to type the letter 'a' somewhere.

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@Lohoris2 I‘m not sure, but I guess you can use 3 on the keyboard once you selected an object to toggle the active state. Worked on some previous versions as well

btw guys, broken link: After you've done the above, connect your device with a USB cable to your computer and open a Command Prompt window. Inside the Command Prompt window change the current directory to the directory where your apk is located: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/command-prompt-faq#1TC=windows-7 I suggest this http://www.digitalcitizen.life/command-prompt-how-use-basic-commands

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