Why can't I access the Name field in the Custom Styles section of a GUISkin in the Inspector?

In working out an answer to my [last question][1] regarding creating an array of unique GUIStyles from a single GUIStyle I came up with the following code excerpt:

public class sharkTrackRender : MonoBehaviour {
     
    public GUISkin buttonGUISkin;
     
    bool firstpass = true;
     
    void OnGUI () {
     
        if (firstpass) {
          for (int i=0; i<pttcnt; i++) {
            btnGUIArray *= new GUIStyle(buttonGUISkin.GetStyle(""));*

}
firstpass = false;
}

}

}
This basically does what I want. By setting up a GUISkin from the Project tab Create menu and dropping it in the public GUISkin variable slot in the script’s Inspector I can set up a GUIStyle in the Custom Styles array section of the GUISkin Inspector and use that GUISkin/GUIStyle combination to set up dynamically sized arrays of unique GUIStyles. The problem is in the Inspector I cannot access the Name field of the Custom Styles array elements. The array elements have no default name, and there seems to be no way to give them a name. Clicking on the Name field does not open a text entry box. I found that using the empty string “” in the GetStyle call will access the first element in the Custom Styles array, so, for the moment I can continue coding, but, there appears to be no way to add and use another uniquely named style in the GUISkin Custom Styles array; which at some point I will probably need to do. Adding multiple GUISkins is not an option any more than would be adding multiple GUIStyles, (see my [last question][2]). Any ideas on what I’m missing would be greatly appreciated.
BTW…I’d still be happy hear from anyone on my [sequential quaternion][3] question…;^)
[1]: How do I construct an array of unique GUIStyles from the values in a single GUIStyle when apparently GUIStyles are passed by reference, not value. - Unity Answers
[2]: How do I construct an array of unique GUIStyles from the values in a single GUIStyle when apparently GUIStyles are passed by reference, not value. - Unity Answers
[3]: Why does only the first of sequential quaternion operations work? - Unity Answers

The problem is that you create your own instance of GUIStyle and it dosn’t linked to any skins,
Have a look at this code which should solve your problem.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System;

public class CustomStyles : MonoBehaviour {
	public GUISkin skin;
	
	void Start(){   // this method just for test, don't use it here, all operations with skins should be in OnGUI method
		GUIStyle buttonStyle = skin.FindStyle("button");
		buttonStyle.border = new RectOffset(20,20,20,20);//BE CAREFULL this is linked to your style and all changes is permanent
		GUIStyle customButton = new GUIStyle(buttonStyle); // now we have new instance;/
		
		GUIStyle[] customStyles=skin.customStyles;
		Array.Resize<GUIStyle>(ref customStyles,skin.customStyles.Length+1); // add one more element to the array
		skin.customStyles[skin.customStyles.Length-1]=customButton;  // see comment from Bunny83. to rebuild cache, we have to prepare array at first and then assign it back to skin
		skin.customStyles = customStyles; // assign array to the skin
	}
}

I would recommend an extension method like this to create the procedural styles:

public static GUIStyle GetStyleOrCreate(this GUISkin aSkin, string aStyleName, GUIStyle aSource)
{
    var S = aSkin.FindStyle(aStyleName);
    if (S == null)
    {
        S = new GUIStyle(aSource);
        S.name = aStyleName;
        GUIStyle[] customStyles = aSkin.customStyles;
        Array.Resize<GUIStyle>(ref customStyles, customStyles.Length+1); 
        customStyles[customStyles.Length-1] = S;
        aSkin.customStyles = customStyles;
    }
    return S;
}

With this you can simply do this:

void OnGUI()
{
    if (first)
    {
        GUI.skin = skin;
        var S = skin.GetStyleOrCreate("MyNewStyle", "Button");
        S.border = ...

If you’ll add a lot of new styles you should use a List instead and just convert the final List to an array and assign it to skin.customStyles as last step.