MANUL Toolbar is a free tool that lets you add your own buttons, toggles, popups and labels to the upper Unity toolbar. You can link various actions to the created buttons as well as customize their appearance.
Button Actions
You can use your buttons to:
Open Assets – load a scene, open a prefab in the prefab editing window or open an image in your default image editing software. You can of course open any kind of asset!
Select Asset – quickly selects an asset in the Project window.
Show Asset In Explorer – view the asset folder in the explorer.
Open Properties Window – open a window with properties of the asset. Much quicker than creating a new Inspector window and locking it with the padlock icon!
Open Folder - select a folder in the Project window and show its content.
Find GameObjet on Scene - find and select a gameObject in the current scene.
Call Static Method – calls any static method from any class.
Call Method From Component – find a GameObject by name (which you entered earlier) on the current opened scene, then find a component attached to it with a given type, and call method from this component.
Call Method From Type – find an Object with the given type on the current opened scene and call method from it.
You can also add toggles or popups which use EditorPrefs (bool type or int type).
Tooltip, Styles & Colors
You can add a tooltip to each button for your users to better explain what your button does.
You can also tint colors and use one of the built-in Unity styles to change the presentation of your button. For those who want to create your own GUISkin and use your custom styles – that option is available too!
Mouse Buttons & Keyboard Keys
You can attach different actions for left-click, right-click, and middle-click, all of them performed with the same toolbar button.
For example, you can open a prefab in the prefab editing window with a left-click on a toolbar button and select this prefab in the Project window with a right-click on a toolbar button.
But that’s not all! You can also combine that with holding Ctrl, Shift, or Alt key and have up to 12 different actions performed with the same toolbar button!
We hope this asset will significantly speed up your work!
Now you can create several sets of buttons and switch between them using a popup. This is extremely useful when working with a team and using some sort of version control.
The currently selected popup is saved as a Editor Pref value, so each member of the team can have their own set of buttons without overwriting other members’ settings.
In the latest version you can link any menu item to a button and execute this item with a single click. Maybe you want to have a button that opens up the Project Settings window or create an empty gameobject? Of course, you can also link custom menu items created by you or other asset creators.
What a great underrated tool!
Really well crafted, easy to use and free!
I just add one question related to “Toggles”.
My use case : I have multiple gameobjects in my scene that have different properties (bool / checkboxes). Like for example, enableXP, skillsHaveCooldown etc…
I would love to have a quick access to all those properties in the toolbar so I can quickly turn them on/off.
When I’m using button to do that and call a function with the Toggle Style, it doesn’t “stay” toggled. And if I use the toggle I don’t really get how I can hook the change operated in the Editor Prefs to some “code”.
Did I miss something or could it be possible for the toggle element to also call Actions (like the Buttons Actions). Maybe passing in param the On/Off state something like that
Yes, you can. Find the Manul Toolbar Asset in the Resources folder. It’s a scriptable object with data, incuding names, icons, text etc. of the buttons. You can change this data in a same way that you change data in any other scriptable object or component, including using a script.
No, this is not possible in the Manul Toolbar mainly because this tool uses Unity editor gui which has its limitations. But it will be possible to invoke an action each time you change the value od the popup - in the next update. The update was scheduled to this week but I’m afraid that this will be delayed to the next week.
Very sorry for the delayed answer. Thanks for the info, I’ll look into it.
Yes, I planned an update a week ago, but unfortunately there were so many things in those weeks, that I simply couldn’t find time. I hope I will be able to update Manul Toolbar next week.
