What's the best way to create a popup with values from a list?

[xelnathParticipant]

I have a dynamic list of strings that are the name of valid Prefabs to have the FlowScript create. Is there a simple way to setup a Blackboard to pick an item from a list, rather than requiring the string to be manually assigned?

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hello,

Can you please clarify your questions a bit more and what you want to achieve? Is this relevant to editor UI popup?
I am sorry but I’m not sure I understand 🙁

If you mean how to pick an item with index from a list, you could do it like the following image, but I presume that is not what you mean?
[attachment file=”PickItemFromList.png”]

Please let me know.
Cheers,

[xelnathParticipant]

Thank you, I appreciate the fast response.

I am specifically trying to create a popup in the unity inspector driven by a dynamic list of strings to select a string to be used as an input for the blackboard.

E.g. The flowscript is called ‘spawn and act’

And I have inputs:

String MonsterName
String MonsterAction

Which I want to source from a list of monsters specific to that level:

Public Ilist<string> LevelMonsterList
{
Get {

return ScenePrefabList.Select ( c => c.MonsterUniqueName );
}
}

And I want to map that list (defined on the spawned object that has the blackboard) onto a popup that drives the “MonsterToSpawn” string

[xelnathParticipant]

Like this. A string driven by a list of strings popup 🙂

[GavalakisKeymaster]

The blackboard GUI is not very customizable in this regards at least right now. There are some solutions I can think of like creating a custom class with custom object drawer, but I think this could become an overkill 🙂
What I’d like to suggest instead is simply create a string variable and bind it to a property or field of a monobehaviour on the gameobject. This way, you can inspect and edit the property/field however you like, but still have it be bound to the variable 🙂

For example:

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public class Bindings : MonoBehaviour {   [FactionPopup] public string faction; }

And then in the Blackboard:
[attachment file=”Bindings.png”]

Let me know if this solution works for you.
Thanks.

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