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Reference asset in UXML

Discussion in 'UI Toolkit' started by BinaryCats, Jan 8, 2020.

  1. BinaryCats

    BinaryCats

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    Hi,

    I have a custom visual element, which has a custom attribute. This works fine.

    I wish to reference an asset (in this case a scriptable object) to pull data from, for example set the label to some text stored in the scriptableObject.
    Is it possible to reference an asset from UXML? If not I think it would be neat :)

    I could put the asset path/asset name as the value, and load the asset, but this isn't fool proof as paths and names change

    Thanks in advance
     
    BinaryCats, Jan 8, 2020
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  2. uMathieu

    uMathieu

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    You can't directly refer to and instance of the Scriptable object directly from uxml for now. You can however, set the binding-path attribute of your label to the name of the serialized property you want to display, then in c# bind the scriptable object to the cloned uxml hierarchy:

    myUxmlElements.Bind(new SerializedObject(myAsset));

    Hope that helps
     
    uMathieu, Jan 8, 2020
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  3. BinaryCats

    BinaryCats

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    Thanks for your reply, I hope that referencing assets in UXML can be considered as a feature request then :)

    Unfortunately binding does not suit my needs, if I had access to myAsset I could (as per my example) set the label text directly, I do not need it to update or any of that jazz.
     
    BinaryCats, Jan 8, 2020
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