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Coroutines as member functions

Discussion in 'Scripting' started by andrewc, Sep 1, 2009.

  1. andrewc

    andrewc

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    I have an object with a member function. However if I put a Yield statement into that member function and run it using the dot operator (a.run()) the function doesn't work. The part of the function before the yield doesn't even seem to get evaluated. Does anybody know why this is.

    Thank You
     
    andrewc, Sep 1, 2009
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  2. Dreamora

    Dreamora

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    Coroutines (in C# at very least) are started through StartCoroutine.
     
    Dreamora, Sep 1, 2009
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  3. Daniel_Brauer

    Daniel_Brauer

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    Yes, in C# you must use StartCoroutine() to call any coroutine. I filed a bug a while ago about coroutines silently failing when called directly, but it's quite possible that there's no reasonable way for the compiler to identify coroutines without getting false positives.
     
    Daniel_Brauer, Sep 1, 2009
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