Pimp Your Enums’ Elements In Unity

Enums, once you get to use them in unity once, you will always try to use them. Not only do they save confusion by avoiding having to use many boolean flags, but also help you tidy up your code and work amazingly well on the Unity inspector. If for some reason you never heard of them, do give yourself the time to research them.

Taking the latter example however, there ARE limitations when it comes to how they appear in the inspector. Essentially speaking, the way you name an enum element, is how they appear on the inspector, separated by capital letters.

i.e. MyEnumElement becomes "My Enum Element" on the dropdown.

This isn’t bad by any means, but there are sometimes when you would prefer something cleaner, like:

GreaterOrEqual to appear instead as: ">=" in the dropdown would be easier to comprehend.

This is the reason this nifty little tool exists.

PLEASE NOTE: That without it on the enum instance, it WON’T work. i.e.:

public enum MyEnum
{
   [EnumLabel("Element #1")]
   ElementOne, 
   ElementTwo, // This one will appear normal ("Element Two")
   [EnumLabel("Element (2^31) - 2147483644")]
   ElementThree
}

// With no attribute, this one will not work with the labels from above, they will ALL appear normally.
public MyEnum myEnumInstance;

[EnumLabel("This Is How I Appear In The Inspector Now")]
public MyEnum myOtherEnumInstance; // This one will work with the above labels, PLUS it can have a custom inspector name.

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(And yes, I’m a big fan of DDLC)
That will be all for today~

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