Variables In Editor Inspector Strings

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Hello everyone, it's probably pretty simple thing, I know. But I have two problems. The first one is, let's say.

 public class Player
 public string playerName;  //And let's say playerName is "Jack"

So when I try to manually write this playerName into Text Input of TextMeshProUGUI in editor, it doesn't show its value. the way I try to do is to write in editor text input " Player Name is : Player.Instance.playerName " I know it's not the way to do it, but you get the idea, is there a way to achieve what I'm trying to do through editor and not via script? To make the value stored by string variable to appear when I write variable on text input in Unity's Editor Inspector?

the second problem is; I have Serializable ScriptableObject storing dialogue strings for my NPCS. For example one of them is; public string greeting; and so I fill these string values of ScriptableObject on editor inspector, let's say

 public string greeting;

And it is: "Hello Player.Instance.playerName, it's nice to meet you!" and yes, it's just not working. In game dialogue box, I want it to show "Hello Jack, it's nice to meet you" but it just shows variable as the way it is.

Is there an ideal way to do what I'm trying to do? All helps and suggestions are appreciated!

Answer 1

So I found a way to achieve this, however I don't know if it's the ideal way or cleanest way to accomplish it but it works. I'm still open to better suggestions, so please feel free to share your thoughts, it's more than welcome. I use string.Replace to achieve what I'm trying to do. I created an array of string tokens for string, integer variables from script or other things that won't show up properly on dialogue box, like new line "\n". So there are 2 elements in array right now, one for player name and the other for new line. I created two tokens both for player name and for new line "\n". Then I created function to search for tokens each time a dialogue that will be present in game. I don't know if it is ideal way to do it performancewise, whether is it expensive or not; however it seems to work.

 public string [] stringTokens; // 0 <plyrnm>,  1 <nn>
 public string dialogueSpeech;
 public void StringTokenSearcher()
 {
     for(int i = 0; i < stringTokens.Length; i++)
     {
         if (dialogueSpeech.Contains(stringTokens[i]))
         {
             switch (i)
             {
                 case 0:
                     dialogueSpeech=dialogueSpeech.Replace(stringTokens[i],Player.Instance.playerName);
                     break;
                 case 1:
                     dialogueSpeech= dialogueSpeech.Replace(stringTokens[i], "\n");
                     break;
             }
         }
     }
 }

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