Editor Script Dropdown that has ID and Value?

Hi

From what I can see the EditorGUILayout.Popup returns just an index of the selected item. Is there another control that allows for a name/value binding in the list that will return the value rather than the index. Having the returned value dependent on the order of the list is problematic in a lot of ways, perhaps I'm missing something?

All of the examples I've seen so far are very simple.

Suppose I have

QUEST
ID = 10
Name = This good Quest

ID = 12
Name = Another Quest

I want to display them in the dropdown ordered by their "Name" but when selected I want to get the ID of the item. This seems harder to do than it should be.

The code I'm using looks like this;

Code (CSharp):

1. for (int i = 0; i < ((DialogManager)target).Quests.Count; i++)
2. {
3.     int questCodeIndex = quests.FindIndex(q => q.QuestID == ((DialogManager)target).Quests[i].QuestID);
4.     if (questCodeIndex == -1) { questCodeIndex = 0; }
5.  
6.     int newQuestID = EditorGUILayout.Popup("Quest", questCodeIndex, quests.Select(q => q.QuestName).ToArray());
7.     ((DialogManager)target).Quests[i] = quests[newQuestID];
8. }

• The objects field being edited is a list of Quests
• I'm iterating over each Quest to set which it is specifically within a list of avaialble quests
• ((DialogManager)target).Quests is a reference to this objects list of quests
  
• quests[] is the collection of available quests
  
• I find the index in the collection using the QuestID
• In the case that this is a new quest I default it to the first in the collection
• Create the dropdown setting the selected to the located index
• Save the objects field to what has been selected

Produces this


It works and doesn't present a performance issue, etc. It's just not as clean as I'd like.

The collection is being loaded from a database in the OnEnable event.

Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

I wouldn't worry about performance of editor scripts unless you're doing something so computationally expensive you freeze the UI for a few seconds.

You could cache your information into a dictionary with the name as the key and the id as the value, or create a small struct just to associate data in the editor.

 

Yeah, thanks mate, it works. I'm just a little surprised I guess by how half done the UI system feels. There are probably reasons for it I'm not seeing so, it's cool. I've got it doing most of what I want now.

Cheers