Spawning Menu

Unity Engine
1

Hi there,

I want to make a little menu that you can open by pressing a key, and then you can search for a certain thing
that you can then spawn.
Spawning is not the problem but how do i make this search window?
I totally don’t understand the UI system.
Hope you help,

~Glemau

2

Your window has to derive from EditorWindow, your GUI code goes into OnGUI, you bind the window to a hotkey through the MenuItem attribute.
Also make sure to place the class somewhere inside the Assets/Editor folder, or at least have a parent folder named Editor.
The following example will show up when pressing CTRL+T (on windows, CMD+T on Mac).

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

class TestWindow : EditorWindow
{
  string searchText;

  void OnGUI()
  {
    searchText = EditorGUILayout.TextField( "Search text", searchText );
    if(GUILayout.Button("Search"))
    {
      // your code here
    }
  }

  [MenuItem("Window/test window %t")]
  static void SpawnWindow()
  {
    GetWindow<TestWindow>();
  }
}
3

I think this is for the Editor right? I meant Ingame.
but its a good thing its just not what i wanted :slight_smile:
but thanks for the answer.

~Glemau

4

Right, this is editor code. To use it ingame, turn the class into a monobehaviour, put it into an empty scene object, and activate the object only when you want to display the menu. Better yet, use the new UGUI system.