Displaying multiple GUILayout button tooltips in a single GUILayout box?

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Hello all,

So I just discovered how to display information when the mouse hovers above a GUILayout button in a custom inspector (Oh, big deal, right?). Lets say I have 4 GUILayout buttons in a row, and I would like to display their tolltips in a single GUI layout box, which is positioned below those buttons, when I hover the mouse over them one by one. Anyone have any suggestions on how this could be accomplished?

So far I am displaying the tooltip by using this:

 EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
  if (GUILayout.Button(new GUIContent("Place object A", "Place selected object in a scene."), GUILayout.Height(30)))
      {
             //Place the object A code;
      }
  
   if (GUILayout.Button(new GUIContent("Remove object A", "Remove selected object"), GUILayout.Height(30)))
                          {
                              //Remove object A code;
                          }
  GUILayout.EndHorizontal();

Any input will be appreciated, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Thanks for the tooltip code! It helped me. :-)

I know this post is old, but for the common label to show tooltip, if you mean Game view, I found an example. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GUI-tooltip.html

If you are looking for the one for Inspector GUI, how about this? (I couldn't find a better way...)

MyPlayer.cs (Attach this to GameObject)

 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class MyPlayer : MonoBehaviour
 {
 
 }

MyPlayerEditor.cs

 using UnityEditor;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 [CustomEditor(typeof(MyPlayer))]
 [CanEditMultipleObjects]
 public class MyPlayerEditor : Editor
 {
     void OnEnable()
     {
     }
 
     public override void OnInspectorGUI()
     {
         GUIContent btnA = new GUIContent("A");
         GUIContent btnB = new GUIContent("B");
         GUIStyle btnstyle = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.button);
         btnstyle.margin = new RectOffset(10, 10, 10, 10); // left, right, top, bottom
         Rect btnARect = new Rect(btnstyle.margin.left, btnstyle.margin.top, 100, 30);
         Rect btnBRect = new Rect(btnstyle.margin.left + btnARect.width + btnstyle.margin.right, btnstyle.margin.top, 100, 30);
         GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
         if (GUILayout.Button(btnA, btnstyle, GUILayout.Width(btnARect.width), GUILayout.Height(btnARect.height)))
         {
             //Place the Button A code;
         }
         if (GUILayout.Button(btnB, btnstyle, GUILayout.Width(btnBRect.width), GUILayout.Height(btnBRect.height)))
         {
             //Place the Button B code;
         }
         GUILayout.EndHorizontal();
         if (Event.current.mousePosition.x > btnARect.x && Event.current.mousePosition.x < btnARect.width &&
             Event.current.mousePosition.y > btnARect.y && Event.current.mousePosition.y < btnARect.height)
         {
             EditorGUILayout.LabelField("A tool tip");
         }
         else if (Event.current.mousePosition.x > btnBRect.x && Event.current.mousePosition.x < (btnBRect.x + btnBRect.width) &&
             Event.current.mousePosition.y > btnBRect.y && Event.current.mousePosition.y < btnBRect.height)
         {
             EditorGUILayout.LabelField("B tool tip");
         }
         else
         {
             EditorGUILayout.LabelField("");
         }
     }
 }

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