Is there a way to make a component serializable?

I am making a custom text editor that can be changed in the inspector. You can change all properties of GUIText, except I had to create a class that has the same properties as GUIText and make that serializable so I can edit it in the inspector. I would rather just have a serialized public GUIText, that you can edit in the inspector.

I have found something called SerializeField, but I don't really understand it, so could I use this to get the effect I want?

 

Edit: didnt read your text properly

 

I'm not sure what you mean... Component are always serializable, with the GameObject that own them.

Do you mean serializable OUTSIDE of a GameObject/Prefab?

 

you use [SerializeField] above a private field variable if you serialize your class with [System.Serializable]

Code (CSharp):

1. [System.Serializable]
2. public class Example
3. {
4.           [SerializeField]
5.           private int _importantNumber;
6.           //public fields get serialize automaticly
7.           public string name;
8.           public Example(string s)
9.           {
10.                     name = s;
11.           }
12.           public int ImportantNumber
13.           {
14.                  get{return _importantNumber;}
15.                  set{_importantNumber = value;}
16.            }
17. }

 

I don't really know how it works... I thought it just meant that it could be edited in the inspector. Is there any way that I can have an editable component such as GUIText as a variable in a script?

So, if I made a:
public GUIText text = new GUIText();

Is there any way that I can make that particular new GUIText editable from that variable in the inspector?

 

So you want to write a string in the inspector which is set to the GUI text's text?

Just save a string and then set GUiText.text to the string.

 

I do want to be able to edit the string from the inspector, but is there any way to edit everything about a new public GUIText (text, color, pixeloffset etc) from the inspector without creating a new class which contains everything about GUIText, then sets the values to that?

 

It's a bit the limitation of component, you cannot do "new MyComponent", they must be created with "gameObject.AddComponent".

Now, why you don't want your GameObject to have a GUIText on it, so you can edit it in the inspector?