How to change the height of a GUI.Window's title bar?

Hi,

I am currently encountering a problem with the title bar of a GUI.Window. It seems to have a fixed size, no matter which font is used for it. This presents some rather ugly issue (see attached screenshot). I tried to fiddle with the skin for a while but there seems to be no way to increase the height of the title bar so the text fits in. Maybe some of the GUISkinners out there can help me with that...

Kind regards,
Jan

 

Firstly, the title bar's actual height is set by the skin's Border property, specifically the Top portion of the border.

Secondly, the title bar's size must match visually, which seems to be the problem you are experiencing. Unfortunately, that really has to be accounted for in the skin texture itself, as there really isn't any good way to change it on a texture that has such rounded corners.

If you look at the Extra GUI Skins resource, you'll see how they have adjusted the skin's Window.Border property to match the actual texture used for each of the three included skins.

When making your own skins, such as the snapshot below, you'll want to play with the Border, Padding, and ContentOffset values to get the titlebar looking as you wish.


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Thank you for your pointers, I'll have a look at them. Regarding the creation of own skins, I still have problems in understanding how the graphic I create are used by Unity. I see edges are being repeated and corners stay, but I really would like to know the exact working of this. How big can I make a corner? Where can I set up which part gets repeated and which not? Is there any documentation on this? I searched the Unity docs but didn't come across something useful.

 

Documentation is pretty sparse, unfortunately, but the extra skins pack helps a lot in my opinion.

The Border property controls scaling by essentially breaking up the image into cells (like 9-slice scaling) :


Cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 don't scale. Cells 2 and 8 scale horizontally, and height is controlled by border.Top and border.Bottom. Cells 4 and 6 only scale vertically, and their width is controlled by border.Left and border.Right, and cell 5 scales both horizontally and vertically.

Corners can be any size you set up, but playing around with it will give you a feeling for what works well and what doesn't.

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Way to go Thanks a lot, I'll check this out tonight.

 

This thread is awesome.

It's been very helpful to our team.

Thanks!