Displaying a panel with text data

Sometimes, we want to create and display a new panel as part of an Editor Extension. In this recipe, we create a menu item that creates and displays a new panel, displaying some text information:

How to do it...

To display a panel with text data, follow these steps:

1. In the Project panel, create a new folder, Editor.
2. In your new Editor folder, create a new C# script-class named InformationPanel.cs, containing the following:

using UnityEditor;
 using UnityEngine;

 public class InformationPanel : EditorWindow
 {
     [MenuItem("My Game/Info Panel")]
     public static void ShowWindow()
     {
         GetWindow<InformationPanel>("My Game", true);
     }

     private void OnGUI()
     {
         GUILayout.Label("Hello editor world");
         GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
         GUILayout.Label("Here is some important information");
     }
 } 

3. After a few seconds, you should now see a menu named My Game appear, with menu item Info Panel.
4. Select menu item Info...