Get started with runtime UI

You can create a runtime UI and display it in a game view by the following steps:

Create a UI Document (.uxml) with controls.
Add a UIDocument GameObject in the scene and add the UXML file as the source asset for it.
Create MonoBehaviours to define the behavior of your UI controls.

Try the following simple runtime UI example to get started. The example adds a label, a button, a toggle, and a text field in a scene. When you click the button, the Console window shows a message. When you select the toggle and click the button, the Console window shows how many times the buttons have been clicked. When you enter a text message in the text field, the Console window shows the message.

先决条件

This guide is for developers familiar with the Unity Editor, UI Toolkit, and C# scripting. Before you start, get familiar with the following:

You can find the completed files that this example creates in this GitHub repository.

Create a UI Document with controls

Create a UI Document with a label, a button, and a Toggle. For information on how to add UI controls with UI Builder or UXML, refer to Get started with UI Toolkit.

Create a project in Unity Editor with any template.

Create a UI Document named SimpleRuntimeUI.uxml with the following contents:

<ui:UXML xmlns:ui="UnityEngine.UIElements" xmlns:uie="UnityEditor.UIElements"
        xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" engine="UnityEngine.UIElements" editor="UnityEditor.UIElements"
        noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../UIElementsSchema/UIElements.xsd" editor-extension-mode="False">
    <ui:VisualElement style="flex-grow: 1;">
        <ui:Label text="This is a Label" display-tooltip-when-elided="true"/>
        <ui:Button text="This is a Button" display-tooltip-when-elided="true" name="button"/>
        <ui:Toggle label="Display the counter?" name="toggle"/>
        <ui:TextField picking-mode="Ignore" label="Text Field" text="filler text" name="input-message" />
    </ui:VisualElement>
</ui:UXML>

Set up the scene

Create a UIDocument GameObject in the SampleScene and add the UI Document as the source asset.

In the SampleScene, select GameObject > UI Toolkit > UI Document. This creates the following:
- A UI Toolkit folder with a Panel Settings asset and a default runtime theme.
- A GameObject with a UI Document component attached, and the UI Document component is connected to the Panel Settings asset.
Select the UIDocument GameObject in the hierarchy and drag SimpleRuntimeUI.uxml from your Project window to the Source Asset field of the UI Document component in the Inspector window. This references the source asset to the UXML file you created.

Define the behavior of your UI controls

To add logic, create a C# script that derives from MonoBehaviour to access the controls that the UI Document component references.

Unity loads a UI Document component’s source UXML when OnEnable is called on the component. To ensure the visual tree is loaded correctly, add logic to interact with the controls inside the OnEnable method.

Create a C# script named SimpleRuntimeUI.cs with the following contents:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

public class SimpleRuntimeUI : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Button _button;
    private Toggle _toggle;

    private int _clickCount;

    //Add logic that interacts with the UI controls in the `OnEnable` methods
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        // The UXML is already instantiated by the UIDocument component
        var uiDocument = GetComponent<UIDocument>();

        _button = uiDocument.rootVisualElement.Q("button") as Button;
        _toggle = uiDocument.rootVisualElement.Q("toggle") as Toggle;

        _button.RegisterCallback<ClickEvent>(PrintClickMessage);

        var _inputFields = uiDocument.rootVisualElement.Q("input-message");
        _inputFields.RegisterCallback<ChangeEvent<string>>(InputMessage);
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        _button.UnregisterCallback<ClickEvent>(PrintClickMessage);
    }

    private void PrintClickMessage(ClickEvent evt)
    {
        ++_clickCount;

        Debug.Log($"{"button"} was clicked!" +
                (_toggle.value ? " Count: " + _clickCount : ""));
    }

    public static void InputMessage(ChangeEvent<string> evt)
    {
        Debug.Log($"{evt.newValue} -> {evt.target}");
    }
}

Add SimpleRuntimeUI.cs as a component of the UIDocument GameObject.

其他资源

Support for runtime UI

Render UI in the Game view