Discussion Coroutine only once

I'm literally using the Unity example and it only runs once

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StopCoroutine.html

No Idea why this is not working as it should, note UPDATE is always getting called thus the object is always active.
I see others on the internet often have this problem, but thats due to not having a loop, which you can see I have

output
Starting 1.004869
a
b
Done 1.004869
UPATE
UPATE
UPATE(and so on only UPDATE)

Code (CSharp):

1. {
2. private IEnumerator                   coroutine;
3.  
4. void Start() {
5.         print("Starting " + Time.time);
6.         coroutine = WaitAndPrint(3.0f);
7.         StartCoroutine(coroutine);
8.         print("Done " + Time.time);
9.     }
10.  
11.     // print to the console every 3 seconds.
12.     // yield is causing WaitAndPrint to pause every 3 seconds
13.     public IEnumerator WaitAndPrint(float waitTime)
14.     {
15.         print( "a" );
16.         while (true)
17.         {
18.             print("b");
19.             yield return new WaitForSeconds(waitTime);
20.             print("WaitAndPrint " + Time.time);
21.         }
22.     }
23.  
24.     void Update()
25.     {
26.         print( "UPATE");
27.         if (Input.GetKeyDown("space"))
28.         {
29.             StopCoroutine(coroutine);
30.             print("Stopped " + Time.time);
31.         }
32.     }

Actually I'm stumped, its not that difficult (its something obvious that I'm overlooking, it must be)
Cheers zed

 

Usually:

Code (CSharp):

1. Coroutine job = StartCoroutine(MyEnumeratorFunction(args));
2. ...
3. StopCoroutine(job);

Edit: As you say, your code is almost identical to the example code. I just tried it on 2021.3 (LTS) and it worked as expected. I added your "a" and "b" printouts.

Code (CSharp):

1. Starting 0
2. a
3. b
4. Done 0
5. WaitAndPrint 3.000875
6. b
7. WaitAndPrint 6.03508
8. b
9. WaitAndPrint 9.036133
10. b
11. [spacebar pressed]
12. Stopped 9.831909

 

Possibilities here as far as I can see are:
- Time.timeScale is set to 0 (or something very small)
- You haven't saved your most recent script changes
- Your GameObject is being destroyed or deactivated

 

Thanks guys. I gave up trying to get it to work last night after the PC crashed
https://forum.unity.com/threads/scr...failed-check-last-reply.1177181/#post-8777008

@PraetorBlue none of these are what causing it.

This morning I try it again, still not working, I try it on a completely different object in the same program, no doesnt work.
I try it in another of my games (much simpler) it works!, so I'm assuming perhaps something in my settings or I'm doing something weird somewhere (this program is huge > 100k LOC)

If I use InvokeRepeating("Test",3,3); then it does get called every 3 seconds
so
InvokeRepeating WORKS
StartCoroutine NOT WORKING

Compiler settings IL2CPP, faster runtime, Release using MSVC2019 for compiler (I do also have 2022 installed)

I will use InvokeRepeating() for now even though from AFAIKS its not as good/performant but at least it works

 

That's a red herring. You may disable / deactivate the object and immediately enable / reactivate it again. However the moment the script is disabled, a running coroutine would be stopped.

So are you sure about that? Have you added the OnDisable callback to see if the object ever gets disabled? It it does, you can see the stacktrace to figure out from where it gets disabled.

Your symptoms clearly show that the coroutine does get stopped at the first yield. So you should systematically rule out the causes that @PraetorBlue mentioned. To test for the other things, you could simply replace the yield return new WaitForSeconds with a simple

yield return null;

it's not affected by time / timescale. If it runs, you probably have a timescale issue. Try printing the timescale in the coroutine.

Uhm, Unity compiles the script itself with its own compiler, usually Mono that ships with Unity. VS has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's just used as a code editor. Any settings inside VS has no effect on the project. The "csproj" file is ignored by Unity. Unity generates these so VS can properly work and show the files properly.

 

Yes Bunny83 thanks, good thinking. I stuck a OnDisable() in there and yes it was getting called, so was able to trace back where this was occurring. So I should be able to fix this, cheers again.

WRT the compiler (I have not looked into this, as I have 101 more important things to do on my list, i.e. stuff thats broken )
but when I do a build unity has been saying (ever since I installed 2022 maybe ~6 months ago) so I assumed ms visual studio was doing the compiling. But you're saying unity comes with its own c# compiler built in. OK cool.

from unity console

Note - C++ and not C#/mono

I haven't looked into this, (like I said I have 101 more important things that need fixing and it works as is), need to run the environment vcbat maybe

 

Check Edit -> Preferences -> External tools. It might still be set to 2019.

 

Yeah cheers I checked that, its been set to 2022 since about 6 months.

I did upgrade last week from 2022.1.3 -> 2022.2.3 and it also still complained about 2019 when I done a build.
I only upgraded cause I was hoping that d3d12 was gonna be functional, but performance was half compared to d3d11 plus there were graphical errors. (Also graphical errors were present in 2022.2.3 with d3d11) so I downgraded again to 2022.1.3.
But no matter I'm not worried about this error 'warning: You are currently using Visual Studio 2019 to compile and link C++ code.'