Extending the editor

Since Airship uses Unity, most of the custom editor features will work as-is. Some examples of features you might may want to add to your project:

• Adding editor menus

Airship also has our own analogous versions of Unity features such as

• Adding custom property inspectors for AirshipBehaviours

Before you begin

If you are planning to write C# scripts for the editor, it's recommended you turn off the TypeScript compiler while you write C# editor code.

How to access the TypeScript service settings

Developer Options setting, which will allow more settings for the TypeScript compiler

This will change the TypeScript menu to add options to start/stop the compiler. This can be utilized to stop the compiler recompiling each time you make a C# change.

TypeScript developer mode

Airship Editor C# API

Airship has the following user editor APIs you can use:

• AirshipSerializedProperty and AirshipSerializedObject for handling Airship Behaviour property serialization

• AirshipCustomEditors for querying the registered custom inspectors for AirshipBehaviours

  • See AirshipBehaviour inspectors for how to add custom editors

• AirshipType which is the Airship version of Type for TypeScript-based types.

  • Types can be queried using AirshipType.GetType(name)

• AirshipEditorGUI - for drawing editor properties for AirshipSerializedProperty instances using IMGUI.

• AirshipGUI for general Airship GUI state

• TypescriptService for general TypeScript APIs

• TypescriptProjectsService.Project for querying the project settings

• TypescriptCompilationService for querying the compiler state