Understanding the component inspector

So, this is probably a bug or something really trivial that just don’t understand. But, for the properties of a component, sometimes they have check boxes all along the left side of the property name, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Sometimes they are there one minute, I collapse and open the component, and then they are gone. Are they supposed to be there? What do they represent (properties changed, perhaps)?

Any insights here appreciated. Thanks!

Jeff M.

for prefabs there’s extra checkboxes to show changes from your “default” prefab settings - not sure why collape would make it disappear though.

Thanks!

I’ll have to play around with it some more when I get home from work to see exactly the situations under which it is there vs not there.

I wonder, is there a better way of representing this data than a checkbox? Also, if the data is meant to be read only (ie, just informing me that the value is different), then I shouldn’t be able to turn it off, but I can.

Jeff M.

Checkboxes are a pretty standard way of representing boolean data. Also, it’s not read-only. You can revert values by unchecking those boxes.