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Can EditorWindows dynamically display interfaces of other Editor Windows ?
For example , we create an editor window named DisplayWindow which displays 3 buttons inside it. the buttons are Inspector button Hierarchy button Scene button
How can we make it so that when we click the Heirachy button , DisplayWindow repaints to display the Heirachy editor window interface ?
when we click the Inspector button , DisplayWindow repaints to display the inspector editor window interface ...etc
Can this be done ? , if it can , then should it be done or is it just going to be slow and taxing on the CPU?
Or should I just pool everything into one script and just make a GUI interface from which i can cycle through the different GUI interfaces ?
You can put all the lines of code that create the window display in a single public function, then you can call that function from within the DisplayWindow OnGUI() and from the specific window OnGUI(), and they will all draw the same thing.
// HierarcyEditor
private void OnGUI() {
DrawWindow();
}
public static void DrawWindow() {
EditorGUILayout.BeginVertical();
// layout stuff goes here
EditorGUILayout.EndVertical();
}
// Display Window
private bool displayHierarchy = false;
private void OnGUI() {
if (GUILayout.Button("Hierarchy")) {
displayHierarch = true;
}
if (displayHierarchy) {
HierarchyEditor.DrawWindow();
}
}
That's the idea, you'll need to tweak the script for your exact needs.
okay I understand this . The issue i'm having now is that I am using a rather complex framework for the editor window , the bigger the framework of the editor window , the slower it becomes once I use this method .
I think that in the end I may have to just have one huge editor script. but thanks to this I have a good idea of how to proceed .
I'm going to wait and see if someone else have another answer before i mark this as correct seeing as it is not 100%
