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How do you force a custom inspector to redraw?
I have a custom editor inspector that I have labels that report data that gets sycn via a custom button on the same inspector, this starts up WWW class to get the data. Once the data syncs and is posted into the value that the lable consumes the custom inspector. However, it does not refresh the lable value unless I click on the inspector window again. Is it possible to force the inspector to redraw at the time the valus changes?
Call Repaint.
Good but Editor.Repaint() is only for scripts using UnityEditor
I want to have game code (non editor scripts) while running to trigger this event repaint event so can watch the gameplay values refresh in editor. Does the editor have an update that can check a value to see if Editor repaint is needed? It seems I could do this with an EditorWindow as it has update functions but what about extending the editor class?
I know this is old but I came looking for an answer to this and found that calling:
EditorUtility.SetDirty( target );
will refresh the editor every frame.
void OnInspectorGUI()
{
//Logic
EditorUtility.SetDirty( target );
}
I don't understand how this could work. If OnInspectorGUI were being called, wouldn't it refresh already? This would make more sense to me if you had an Update method in which you called SetDirty.
Anyone tried this? DOES it actually work?
EDIT: Okay, so I'm an idiot. It was easy enough to try it, and it DOES work, although I'm kinda baffled as to how. I guess maybe the editor base class holds a deep copy of its target?
Don't use this to redraw an inspector. SetDirty is intended to mark an asset as having changes that need to be saved by Unity. In the past it could also be used to mark GameObjects dirty, which would dirty the scene, but should no longer be used for this purpose. Incidentally this will also force a repaint, but this is only a side-effect and should not be misused like this. Call Repaint() on the editor instance ins$$anonymous$$d. Or, if you don't have access to the instance, use UnityEditorInternal.InternalEditorUtility.RepaintAllViews();
Understandable, both EditorUtility.SetDirty(target); and Repaint(); worked well for me, but i will use Repaint as you said.
Here's a technique I've used for getting game code to call editor code. Rather than calling directly (which you can't do), you can create an event delegate in the game code to which the editor code attaches itself.
So for your component that wants to tell the editor code to repaint itself, add something like this:
public class MyComponent : MonoBehaviour
{
// Declare the method signature of the delegate to call.
// For a void method with no parameters you could just use System.Action.
public delegate void RepaintAction();
// Declare the event to which editor code will hook itself.
public event RepaintAction WantRepaint;
// This private method will invoke the event and thus the attached editor code.
private void Repaint()
{
// If no handlers are attached to the event then don't invoke it.
if (WantRepaint != null)
{
WantRepaint();
}
}
...
}
Then in your custom inspector, have it attach its Repaint method to this event:
[CustomEditor(typeof(MyComponent))]
public class MyComponentEditor : Editor
{
// I like having the typecast to my component in one place, instead of everywhere I refer to target.
private MyComponent Target
{
get { return (MyComponent)target; }
}
// When you enable the inspector, attach to the game code that wants to call it.
void OnEnable()
{
Target.WantRepaint += this.Repaint;
}
// And then detach on disable.
void OnDisable()
{
Target.WantRepaint -= this.Repaint;
}
...
}
And now whenever your game code (in MyComponent) calls Repaint, the call will get dispatched via the event hook-up into the inspector, and a repaint will happen. So you can call Repaint as often or as little as you like.
A similar approach can be used any time you want activity in game code to trigger results in editor code. (I usually wrap all the game code side of this in #if UNITY_EDITOR, so it gets compiled away in a build.)
This was probably not available when the question was asked. But this is my recommended way:
[CustomEditor(typeof(MyType))]
public class MyTypeInspector : Editor
{
public override bool RequiresConstantRepaint()
{
return true;
}
public override void OnInspectorGUI()
{
base.OnInspectorGUI();
// Draw stuff
}
}
This is what I was looking for. Even
void Update()
{
Repaint();
}
didn't work for me. This did. Thank you!
If you need to refresh an inspector Window while Unity is playing, you can simply change the value of a serialized field in its target, and the Inspector will repaint automatically. See my self-answered question here: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/330518/refreshing-custom-inspector-window-while-playing.html
