SerializeField BaseEventData ?

Unity Engine
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Suppose I want to do a similar sort of thing to what EventTrigger class does. I want to allow people to set what function on what object is called, just like that, except I’m not using the existing list of EventTypes.

I haven’t seen any source code for EventTrigger so I can’t see how they specify it. The interface refers to (BaseEventData) but if I try just
[SerializeField]
BaseEventData leftEvent;
This displays nothing in the editor. Is there something else I can do to get that nice “select object and method” thing that the EventTrigger class gets?

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BaseEventData is not serializable, so it’s not going to show up in the inspector.

BaseEventData is similar to System.EventArgs. It’s a small chunk of data to go along with some event that occurs in the EventSystem.

What you probably want is UnityEvent:

Here’s a discussion about it:

Personally I use my own version I wrote before UnityEvent was released, it’s the Trigger class in here:

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UnityEvent, that does exactly what I’m looking for.