Functions not being called in during Start()

Hello, I am currently working on a personal project and I am coming across a problem in which I have functions caching and initing variables and data within an object's Start() function, however when the project actually runs it seems that ONLY the first function is ever called… Here is the idea of the code :

Code (CSharp):

1. bool toUseLater;
2.  
3. void Start ()
4. {
5.     CacheData();
6.        
7.     InitStats();
8. }
9.  
10. protected void CacheData()
11. {
12.        //THIS FUNCTION DOES GET CALLED CORRECTLY
13.  
14.     Debug.Log("CACHED DATA");
15.  
16.          //cache references to important objects
17. }
18.    
19. virtual protected void InitStats() //This function is overridden in an inheriting class
20. {
21.        Debug.Log("INITING STATS");
22.  
23.         toUseLater = true;
24. }
25.  
26. void Update()
27. {
28.         //everything within this IF never runs because toUseLater still has it's initial value of false
29.         if( toUseLater )
30.                  //do something
31. }

For some reason although Start() calls CacheData(), InitStats() never get's called and I have no idea why that would happen. Any help you guys could give me would be really appreciated, I can't figure out what's going on. Thanks!

 

I guess thats because InitStats is overriden and its that one which is called and not
this one.

 

No this is in the base class so there's no other version it could be calling at this point

 

I even just added a debug directly after CacheData() before InitStates() and it is never called.

Code (CSharp):

1. void Start()
2. {
3.       CacheData();
4.  
5.       Debug.Log("THIS SHOULD PRINT");
6.  
7.       InitStates();
8. }

 

aah ok..Is there some error thrown when CacheData is executing ?
Maybe its cause it just crashes there and thus not proceeding
to the next calls. I would print a Debug.Log line by line after each line
in CacheData to find out exactly which line its failing.

 

I commented out everything in CacheData and it still did the same thing

 

hmm this is really weird then..can you put a breakpoint in Start and go line by line and
see what happens ?

 

I'm using MonoDevelop and I'm not sure how to get the breakpoints to actually work without linking the code to Visual Studio (which I can't do cause I'm using a Mac)

 

Does this help with the breakpoint ??
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/scripting/monodevelops-debugger

 

I just figured it out. I realized I had been trying to test my code with the inheriting class and I had forgotten that I hadn't called InitStats in that class's Start function. Thanks for the help though!