Obsessive compulsive over a Custom Editor component unable to expose himself...

For the life of me, I cannot get this thing to return anything but null. My intent is to get a class which derives from the Editor class (who therefore should be a ScriptableObject class) to expose itself as a MonoScript, so I can just click it and get it highlighted in the project window.

To alleviate the fact that I cannot get an object from a target like I would from MonoScript.FromMonoBehaviour, I've tried using MonoScript.FromScriptableObject (this) in the custom editor component. But this returns null. So I tried to create an instance of the class, like in: ScriptableObject.CreateInstance(this.GetType()) but this does not work either.

Anyone know of a quick and dirty way to get a Custom Editor script to be displayed as a clickable property in the inspector?

 

Editorscripts are not components, so cannot be attatched to gameobjects - so you'll never see them in the inspector.

As for pinging the script in the project window, these scripts works for me:

Code (CSharp):

1. //Editor window:
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEditor;
4. using System.Collections;
5.  
6. public class PingTest : EditorWindow {
7.     [MenuItem( "EDITORS/Ping Window" )]
8.     static void Init () {
9.         PingTest window = (PingTest) EditorWindow.GetWindow( typeof( PingTest ) );
10.         window.Show();
11.         window.position = new Rect( 20, 80, 100, 80 );
12.     }
13.  
14.     void OnGUI () {
15.         if ( GUILayout.Button( "Ping my script" ) ) {
16.             EditorGUIUtility.PingObject( MonoScript.FromScriptableObject( this ) );
17.         }
18.     }
19. }
20.  
21.  
22. //----OR----
23.  
24.  
25. //Customised inspector for "theScript" class
26. using UnityEngine;
27. using UnityEditor;
28. using System.Collections;
29.  
30. [CustomEditor( typeof( theScript ) )]
31. public class PingTest : Editor {
32.  
33.    public override void OnInspectorGUI () {
34.      if ( GUILayout.Button( "Ping my script" ) ) {
35.        EditorGUIUtility.PingObject( MonoScript.FromScriptableObject( this ) );
36.      }
37.    }
38. }
39.  
40.  

 

Thanks! That did the trick. Thanks for taking the time to post your code.