Highlighting a component of a gameobject in the inspector from a custom editor window?

Hi,

I'm making a custom editor that allows be to create a lot of game objects and components. I would like to be able to bounce around components in the inspector from my custom editor.

Selecting the game object is easy, but I can't find a reliable way for scrolling to the target component and highlighting it. My system is quite advanced with some gameobjects having around 10-20 components. It makes it a pain to find the components I'm looking for, especially for people who are not familiar with the system.

This is as far as I was able to get (It highlights the wrong thing)

Code (CSharp):

1. public class HiearachySelectionButton : Button
2.     {
3.         public HiearachySelectionButton(Func<Object> GetObject)
4.         {
5.             text = "Select in hierarchy";
6.             clicked += () =>
7.             {
8.                 var obj = GetObject();
9.                 Selection.SetActiveObjectWithContext(obj, obj);
10.                
11.                 var result = Highlighter.Highlight("Inspector", "m_Script", HighlightSearchMode.Auto);
12.                 Debug.Log(result);
13.             };
14.         }
15.     }

The Highlighter class seems obsolete when most of the inspectors are custom inspectors I made with UIElements. From what I understand it works by reading the IMGUI stack.

The highlighting is not necessary for my purpose (although it would be nice). What I'm really after is the scrolling to the correct component in the inspector.

If you have any ideas I'm all ears.

 

Hi,

I tried something but it still doesn't work for me. i get a warning and nothing gets highlighted I would assume because of the warning.

The idea was to use a HighlightIdentifier on the rect of my custom inspector

Code (CSharp):

1. Highlighter.HighlightIdentifier(container.contentRect, "CustomIdentifier"+target.GetInstanceID());

And then when I wish to highlight it using the following code, which is run when clicking a button in a custom editor

Code (CSharp):

1. public void SelectInHierarchy()
2.         {
3.             var obj = m_GetObject();
4.             Selection.SetActiveObjectWithContext(obj, obj);
5.            
6.             //The identifier text is the same as on the custom inspector.
7.             var highlightTask = HighlightDelayed("CustomIdentifier"+obj.GetInstanceID());
8.            
9.         }
10.  
11.         protected async Task HighlightDelayed(string indentifier)
12.         {
13.             await Task.Delay(500);
14.            
15.             var result = Highlighter.Highlight("Inspector", indentifier, HighlightSearchMode.Identifier);
16.             Debug.Log(result);
17.             await Task.Delay(500);
18.             Highlighter.Stop();
19.         }

I get the following warning:

Code (CSharp):

1. Warning:
2.  
3. Highlighter recursion detected.  You are calling Highlighter.Highlight() with too much abandon.  Avoid highlighting during layout and repaint events.
4. UnityEditor.Highlighter:Highlight(String, String, HighlightSearchMode)

Any help would be extremely appreciated

 

Hi,

I'm sorry to tag you @uMathieu but since you've been so helpful in other posts I was hoping you could direct me to someone who could help me with this issue I have.

The highlither documentation is here: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Highlighter.Highlight.html
and here : https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/HighlightSearchMode.html

What I really wish to achieve to to jump from one component to another in the in the inspector from a custom editor window. If it could be highlited for half a second that would be even better which is why I'm trying to make Highlighter work with UIelement custom component inspectors.

 

Thank you @sebastiend-unity , I'm glad to know it will be fixed some day.

I'm working on an asset on the asset store and currently the required version is 2019.3f+.
Would you know if that fix would be introduced as a fix on 2019.4 LTS or will it be added in 2020.X+?

Either way if I want to keep the required version to 2019.3f+ I guess I'll have to find a custom solution. It'll probably require some reflection to get the inspector window such that I can move the scroll value. I'll figure out something for replacing the component highlight.

If you have any tips on that I'm all ears.

 

any updates?

I'd like to be able to highlight specific types of components in the inspector for the currently selected game object. You can make some pretty convenient tools with this I think

 

@sebastiend-unity @uMathieu is it still broken?
"Highlighter.Highlight"

 

Same problem. Bumping this up.

 

@sebastiend-unity @uMathieu what is the status on this? Do you have a link to issue or some such