EditorWindow.SendEvent

Description

Sends an Event to a window.

The SendEvent public function passes a selected Event to a chosen visible window. The Event can be found in the EventType list.

In the following scripts sendEvent looks up the receiveEvent window. A Paste event is then sent over when the button is pressed.

// Send an event to another editor window.  This second
// window needs to be visible to receive the event.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

public class sendEvent : EditorWindow
{
    [MenuItem("Examples/Send Event")]
    static void Init()
    {
        sendEvent window =
            EditorWindow.GetWindow<sendEvent>(true, "Send Event Window");
        window.Show();
    }

    void OnGUI()
    {
        if (GUI.Button(new Rect(10.0f, 10.0f, 100.0f, 30.0f), "Send Event"))
        {
            EditorWindow win = GetWindow<receiveEvent>();
            win.SendEvent(EditorGUIUtility.CommandEvent("Paste"));
        }
    }
}

// A small editor window that receives sent events.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

public class receiveEvent : EditorWindow
{
    [MenuItem("Examples/Receive Event")]
    static void Init()
    {
        receiveEvent window =
            EditorWindow.GetWindow<receiveEvent>(true, "Receive Event Window");
        window.Show();
    }

    void OnGUI()
    {
        Event e = Event.current;

        if (e.commandName == "Paste")
            Debug.Log("Paste received");
    }
}