Need a hand using array.Length in a C# editor script

[system]

Hey everybody, I’ve been getting hounded by a nullreference error while using array.Length in a C# editor script

This is the editor script (With unnecessary script lines removed)

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
using System.Collections;
    [CustomEditor(typeof(SentryTurretAI))]
    public class SentryTurretAIEditor : Editor {
    	int sections;
    	bool[] showSentryPart;
    	string[] aimFromObjects;
    	
    	public override void OnInspectorGUI () {
    		EditorGUIUtility.LookLikeControls();
    		SentryTurretAI sentryTurretAI = (SentryTurretAI) target as SentryTurretAI;
    		sections = sentryTurretAI.sentryObjects.Length;
    }

And this is the actual script affected:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

[System.Serializable]
public class trackObject {
        //These are variables in 'sentryObjects'
	public Transform rotatingObject;
	public float trackSpeed;
	public Vector3 up;
	public bool local;
	public bool x;
	public bool y;
	public bool z;
}

    [System.Serializable]
    public class SentryTurretAI : MonoBehaviour {
    	public trackObject[] sentryObjects;
        //Removed clutter
        }

The above posted is what I’ve narrowed down as the problem, I’ve been working at it for a while and have had no prevail! To the best of my knowledge, this should be working but it gives this error (ignore line reference):

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
SentryTurretAIEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/Editor/SentryTurretAIEditor.cs:14)
UnityEditor.InspectorWindow.DrawEditors (Boolean isRepaintEvent, UnityEditor.Editor editors, Boolean eyeDropperDirty)
UnityEditor.InspectorWindow.OnGUI ()
System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)

Any help would be absolutely amazing!

Thanks,

-AJ

[Marnix]

It seems that your sentryObjects is still null. Which it is, because you haven’t defined sentryObject yet. Where is the line where you say: sentryObjects = new trackObject[5]?

Arrays need to be created, just like any other object. The problem with an array is that you have to specify the length at creation time.