[Released] Dictator - Dictionary support done right

Introducing Dictator - Unity Dictionary support done right

Features

• Supports serialization and deserialization
• nice looking property drawer that takes minimal space in the inspector
• Adjustable Key value display size
• Supports Nesting
• No need to write Editor class, just declare your type and use
• Supports any type
• Drag and drop reorders elements
• Performance is the same as Dictionary, it uses Dictionary under the hood
• API is the same as Dictionary, no new API to learn

How Dictator differs to other solutions on the market

• Aesthetics - Dictator uses unity built in drawer to display Dictionary, it blends right in, it feels like its natively supported
• Real Dictionary - not faked like double list, the keys have to be unique, and you can use anything as key. The API is exactly the same, if you already have dictionary in your code, its really easy to switch to Dictator.
• No setup required - All* of other solutions requires you to write another "Editor class" in addition to declare your own Dictionary class, with dictator, you just declare your class and thats it

Here is an example setup

Code (CSharp):

1. [Serializable]
2. public class MyDictionary : Dict<type, type>{}

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Updated to support from unity 5.3 and up

 

I was one of them . I have tested and reviewed the product. Clearly recommended when you need to work with dictionaries in Unity (who doesn't?).
Thanks for the Key astrokoala.

 

Hi,

I've just bought this plugin because i have a lot of problems in trying to implements Dictionary compatible with Unity Inspector.
I've tried this int my project but it doesn't seem to be atapt to my problem.
I cant inspect the second nested dictionary and sometimes it gives me some strange errors in the console.
(Another small bug: the foldoutArrow is inside the key field)

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Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class PlayerController : TankStateController //it's monobehaviour
6. {
7.     public CiaoClips ciao;
8.     public CiaoClipsDict ciaoDict;
9. }
10.  
11. [Serializable]
12. public class Clips
13. {
14.     [SerializeField]
15.     public List<AudioClip> collection;
16.  
17.     public Clips() : base()
18.     {
19.         collection = new List<AudioClip>();
20.     }
21. }
22.  
23. [Serializable]
24. public class LocClips : Dict<SystemLanguage, Clips> { }
25.  
26. [Serializable]
27. public class CiaoClips
28. {
29.     [SerializeField, Range(0, 100)] private int priority;
30.     [SerializeField] private LocClips collection;
31. }
32.  
33. [Serializable]
34. public class CiaoClipsDict : Dict<string, CiaoClips> { }

If someone can help me please reply!

Last thing, I think that implementing a constructor for the Dict class would be nice in order to have more control on the usage of the dict class.

Thank you