> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://postica.gitbook.io/binding-system-3/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://postica.gitbook.io/binding-system-3/reference/windows-and-menus.md). # Windows, Menus and Components Every window, menu item, component and asset in the package. The index. If you have found something in the editor and want to know what it is, it is on this page. ## Windows

Window	Where	What it shows
Bindings Monitor	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Bindings Monitor	Bindings Monitor
Bindings Dependencies	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Bindings Dependencies	Bindings Dependencies
Bindings Dependency Graph	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Bindings Dependency Graph	Dependency Graph
Bindings Validator	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Bindings Validator	Bindings Validator
Bindings Dependencies (Legacy)	No menu item. Opened automatically by Binding ▸ Show Dependencies and by Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + D when the project is not on Force Text serialization	The legacy window
Bind Variables	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Bind Variables	Bind Variables
Bind Visualizer a Scene view overlay, not a window	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Bind Scene Visualizer, or the Scene view's overlay menu	Scene Visualizer
Templates	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Templates	Templates. Three tabs: Modifiers, Converters, Paths
What's New	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ What's New	The Welcome Screen
Easing picker	The ease button on a Tween Animation modifier	Tweening and Control
Optimized Accessors	Project Settings ▸ Binding System ▸ Configuration ▸ Build-Time Optimized Accessors ▸ ◎ Browse	Optimized Accessors
Bindings Refactor	Opens by itself when a loaded proxy binding fails to resolve, or when a script reload or an opened scene finds a loaded proxy reading a member that is gone. Also from Project Settings ▸ Binding System ▸ Configuration ▸ Refactor Manager ▸ Open Refactor Window, and from Refactor renamed members in the validator	Refactoring
Removing the Binding System	Window ▸ Binding System ▸ Remove Binding System...	Removing Binding System
Bind popup	A click on a Micro UI hexagon, or on a binding in the Dependency Graph	The whole bind row, in a popup. From the graph it has Apply and Cancel.
Bind panel	The BIND button, which appears on a bind row only when the row is too narrow to fit its controls	The Bind Field

## Menu items ### Window ▸ Binding System Every menu item the package adds to the menu bar is here, in this order. Nothing of it lives under **Window ▸ Analysis** any more.

Item	What it does
What's New	Opens the welcome screen.
Reset Welcome Screen	Forgets the stored version and answered questions, so the next domain reload greets the project as a fresh install.
Templates	Opens the templates window, on the tab you last used.
Bindings Monitor	Bindings Monitor.
Bindings Validator	Bindings Validator.
Bindings Dependencies	Bindings Dependencies.
Bindings Dependency Graph	Dependency Graph.
Bind Variables	Bind Variables.
Bind Scene Visualizer	Scene Visualizer, which is a Scene view overlay rather than a window.
Validate Active Scene	Opens the validator and checks the scene you are working in.
Validate Whole Project	The same over every scene, prefab and asset. Warns first, because it opens scenes.
Refresh IDE Index	Reads every scene, prefab and asset again and rewrites the index the VS Code and Rider extensions show.
Regenerate Standard Modifiers	Rebuilds the generated standard modifiers file.
Delete Generated Standard Modifiers	Removes it.
Remove Binding System...	The removal assistant: writes down every binding in the project, and can turn the bindings into plain values or into generated components before the package leaves.
Write down every binding	Writes the record of every binding in the project without changing anything.
Finish the baked bindings	Installs the components a bake generated, for when the compile that follows a bake did not finish the job the first time.
Image Browser, Image Converter	Authoring tools for the package's own icons. Nothing in a project needs them.

{% hint style="info" %} The diagnostics windows used to live under **Window ▸ Analysis**. They are all under **Window ▸ Binding System** now, so everything the package adds is in one menu. {% endhint %} ### Context menus

Item	What it does
Enable Binding / Disable Binding right click a serialized field, or a material property	Proxy Bindings
Binding ▸ Pin to Bind Sources Binding ▸ Pin Children to Bind Sources Binding ▸ Unpin from Bind Sources on a component header, a GameObject, an asset or a property	Pinned Paths
Binding ▸ Show Dependencies on a component header, a GameObject or an asset	Bindings Dependencies
Binding ▸ Validate Bindings on a component header, a GameObject, an asset or a folder	Bindings Validator, scoped to the selection
Add BS3 Binding / Edit / Remove right click a property field in UI Builder	UI Toolkit and UXML

### Shortcuts

Keys	What it does
Ctrl / Cmd + Shift + D	Show the bindings that depend on the current selection. Opens whichever dependencies window the project's serialization mode supports. Rebindable under Edit ▸ Shortcuts ▸ Binding System.

### Assets ▸ Create ▸ Binding System

Item	What it does
Bind Variables Asset	A project-wide variable container.
State Asset	Members made in the Inspector, shared by everything that references the asset. See State and State Asset.
Modifier Templates	The modifier templates asset.
Converter Templates	The converter templates asset.
Path Templates	The saved paths asset.

### Project Settings

Item	What it does
Project Settings ▸ Binding System	Settings. Five sections: Language, Visualization, Optimization, Configuration, Tools.

## Components

Component	What it does
State Add Component ▸ Binding System ▸ State	Fields of the object's own, made in the Inspector and bound like a script's. See State and State Asset.
UI Document Bindings Add Component ▸ Binding System ▸ UI Document Bindings	Scene-stored UI Toolkit bindings for the `UIDocument` on the same GameObject. See UI Toolkit and UXML. Added automatically when you bind from UI Builder.
Proxy Bindings (hidden)	Holds the proxy bindings of one GameObject. Hidden from Add Component, execution order `-320000`. Created and removed automatically. The asset equivalent is a hidden `Bindings` sub-asset.
Scene Bind Variables (hidden)	Holds a scene's bind variables. Execution order `-32000`. Reveal it with Visualization ▸ Scene Variables Object.
Pinned Storage	Holds a scene's pinned paths. Created on demand.

{% hint style="info" %} The hidden components are managed by the package. You do not add or remove them, and their execution order is deliberate: bindings and variables have to be in place before anything else in the frame reads them. {% endhint %} ## Assets in the Bindings folder Location configurable, see [Bindings Path](/binding-system-3/reference/settings.md#bindings-path).

Asset	What it holds
`global-bindings`	Proxy bindings on assets that cannot hold a sub-asset of their own, textures being the usual case. Everything else stores its bindings next to the object it belongs to. Do not delete.
`global-pins`	Project-wide pinned paths.
`field-routes`	Every field route. Do not delete.
`bind-types`	Registered bind types.
`bind-meta-values`	Runtime options, including phased bindings and universal bind control.
The generated standard modifiers file	Standard Modifiers. Do not edit or rename. Its class names are persisted in scenes and prefabs.

## Scene view controls Only one feature draws in the Scene view, and everything below belongs to it. See [Scene Visualizer](/binding-system-3/project-tools/diagnostics/scene-visualizer.md).

You are looking at	What it is
An arrow between two objects	A binding. The arrowhead is its bind mode, and the colour repeats it: cyan reads, amber writes, violet both, red cannot reach a source.
A dashed arrow ending in a diamond	The source is a bind variable.
A short arrow ending in a square	The source is not in the scene: an asset, a runtime lookup, or a missing reference.
A ring around an object	The object holds a bound field. Red when one of its bindings cannot reach a source.
A chip with the bind mark and a number	How many bindings the object holds. Click to select and ping it.
A chip with a speed mark	The object's Optimized Update state. Click to switch every binding on the object at once.
A small meter with a figure in ms	What the object's bindings cost this frame. Play mode, with the Bindings Monitor open.

## Inspector controls

You clicked	What it is
A hexagon toggle beside a field label	The bind toggle.
A hexagon beside a field that kept its own control	A bound field in Micro UI. Click it for the binding, right click to unbind. Red when the binding is broken, orange with a plus when it is not finished.
A hexagon whose centre is green or red	Micro UI: green, the field shows the value the binding produces; red, the binding could not produce one, so the field shows its own.
A read / write arrow icon	The bind mode.
A toggle with a number beside it	Modifiers, and how many.
An eye-like toggle	Path Value Preview.
A toggle showing an object icon	The source field, and its icon is the source mode. The light under it is the mode's cost, from green to violet. Ctrl or Cmd click pings the source.
A pill reading Use and a GameObject's name, under the source	Sets the binding's own GameObject as the context of its search.
A path starting with an object's name and an arrow	Visible Source: the source of the binding, ahead of its path.
A red dot at the start of a row	Error Visualization.
A small badge saying the binding will be replaced at build time	Optimized Accessors.
An arrow-like reroute icon	Field Rerouting.
A BIND button on the right of a row	The row is too narrow to draw everything. Detaches the binding into a floating panel. It is not shown at normal widths.
A ··· button	The bind menu.

## Not in this list A few menu items exist only in internal development builds of the package, behind the `BS_DEBUG` and `INTERNAL_TEST` defines, and are not present in the version you installed. If you find one, it is a diagnostic aid rather than a feature: nothing in this documentation depends on it. ## Package documentation links The Package Manager entry links to this site, to the [change log](/binding-system-3/help/change-log.md) and to the [third-party licenses](/binding-system-3/help/third-party-licenses.md). The welcome screen and the settings page both link here too.