Screen.height/width via [ContextMenu] click return dimensions of righ-clicked editor panel

Unity Engine
1

I got this piece of code attached to an empty GameObject in an otherwise empty scene in 5.5.0f2

using UnityEngine;

public class Test : MonoBehaviour {

    void Start() {
        Debug.Log("START width " + Screen.width + " height " + Screen.height);
    }

    [ContextMenu("Test")]
    void TestMe() {
        Debug.Log("TEST width " + Screen.width + " height " + Screen.height);
    }
}

When I press Play, and then right-click the Monobehaviour and click on the “Test” item in the dropdown, i get these outputs:

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When I resize the inspector panel of holding the MonoBehaviour, the output produced through the context-menu click changes to match the size of the inspector panel (I believe).
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2

Sounds like a bug. Have you filed a bug report?

3

Now i have, though i botched a copy-paste-edit in the description, but it’s OK still :stuck_out_tongue:
https://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?855755_jip8b5fjeq0jmhqo

4
5

Mmkay. Seems like Camera.pixelHeight and pixelWidth are the correct values to use. I think there’s even some Unity learning material that should be changed to use these values instead of Screen.width/height. I’m pretty sure that’s where i picked up the habit of using Screen.XXXX values years ago.

6

Yes it seems to be by design. Screen returns the state of the current rendering context (which is the inspector in this case). Much of the editor and many 3rd-party editor extensions rely on this behavior. However, I agree that the API is a bit vague about what it should be used for. We’ve been looking into a better solution for this API.