Unity Editor Window (Part 2)

Editor Window (Part 2)

Hi Dev’s, in this blog we are going to cover “How to make Sub-toolbar within are Toolbar Options”, For those who are new to this site I highly recommend to check the previous blog first as this one is a continues to it.

So, let’s get started

So far, we have created our Main Editor window showing A toolbar with 4 Options: Animals, Buildings, Items, Staff.

Next up we want to create sub toolbar with options names as per the folders name in our resource/Selected option name from toolbar.

Step1.

So, for that what we will do is create respected folders:

1. Go to Resources folder and create 4 folders named as: Animals, Buildings, Items, Staff.

2. Create sub folders in each folder:

·         Animals

1.      Animal

2.      Playables

3.      Shelter

·         Buildings

1.      Drinks

2.      Restaurants

·         Items

1.      Decorative

2.      Fences

3.      Tiles

·         Staff 

Folder Hierarchy will look something like this:

Step2. Scripting

Open script “AssetManager”.

Now what we have to do is read all the sub-folders from selected Folder as per our toolbar and show case a sub-toolbar.

        1. We will add a switch case and call a function named LoadPanel() with parameter of path to                   respected folder.

      2. Read all the folder names and store in an array, and provide them as options for our sub-toolbar.

    Create 2 variables names as _sub_toolbar_sel for indexer and Sub_folders_toolbar for our options.

      3. Save and switch back to unity. Open up your window and you will see we have our sub-Toolbar in      each toolbar respectively to our folders.

    But if you have noticed whenever you select and option in sub-toolbar say Animals/Shelter option      and switches to another toolbar than it’s 2^ndSub-toolbar is selected automatically, which may              result to error if we don’t have 2^nd option in any of toolbar.

      4. For this we have to make sure sub-toolbar selection resets whenever we switch between toolbars.

Create a variable named “previous_toolbar_sel”, to know that we have switched between toolbars and then reset the sub_toolbar_sel =0.

That’s all for Today

In next Blog of our series Editor Window we will learn to load texture files from resources folder and create buttons from them.

Till Than Happy Coding!!!