How to get the SimpleFileBrowserCanvas(Clone) reference after it spawns on my scene in script?

[sstamatis01]

I have been using the SimpleFileBrowser just fine my VR project, however one minor setback is the fact that I cant edit SimpleFileBrowserCanvas(Clone) position in runtime because I cannot find its refence in my script. Basically I always want it to spawn in front of my player so I need its reference to change its position whenever I call yield return FileBrowser.WaitForLoadDialog(FileBrowser.PickMode.FilesAndFolders, true, null, null, "Load Files and Folders", "Load");

The reason why this happens is because it spawns as a new scene (DontDestroyOnLoad) which unfortunately is created dynamically and thus I cannot register it in my build in order to switch between scenes with SceneManager.LoadScene package. Searching the object with Findwont work since I m looking in my main scene.

This should be possible to do somehow but I am not very experienced with Unity to do it myself. I would appreciate if someone knows who to do this.

[yasirkula]

Hi! If you wish, you can put an instance of SimpleFileBrowserCanvas to your scene and reference it in your scripts. Or, you can get the file browser via FindObjectOfType<FileBrowser>() after calling WaitForLoadDialog for the first time.

[sstamatis01]

The funny thing is that I found a workaround with a solution proposed by you here (https://forum.unity.com/threads/editor-script-how-to-access-objects-under-dontdestroyonload-while-in-play-mode.442014/). The proposed method works and I cant edit the position during runtime:

public static GameObject[] GetDontDestroyOnLoadObjects()
{
    GameObject temp = null;
    try
    {
        temp = new GameObject();
        Object.DontDestroyOnLoad( temp );
        UnityEngine.SceneManagement.Scene dontDestroyOnLoad = temp.scene;
        Object.DestroyImmediate( temp );
        temp = null;

        return dontDestroyOnLoad.GetRootGameObjects();
    }
    finally
    {
        if( temp != null )
            Object.DestroyImmediate( temp );
    }
}

Thanks for quick response! I guess your suggestions could also work.