Spawning Menu

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

 

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).

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEditor;
4.  
5. class TestWindow : EditorWindow
6. {
7.   string searchText;
8.  
9.   void OnGUI()
10.   {
11.     searchText = EditorGUILayout.TextField( "Search text", searchText );
12.     if(GUILayout.Button("Search"))
13.     {
14.       // your code here
15.     }
16.   }
17.  
18.   [MenuItem("Window/test window %t")]
19.   static void SpawnWindow()
20.   {
21.     GetWindow<TestWindow>();
22.   }
23. }
24.  

 

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

~Glemau

 

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.