How is this possible? (Unity Inspector variable not working properly)

I had something VERY weird happen today. I had a couple of return statements at the beginning of routines to show and hide a tooltip so that I could disable them. Our artist wanted to be able to have them on so I did something VERY simple and I cannot get it to work.

I added a variable...

Code (csharp):

1. public bool disableItemTooltips;

To the script then changed the tooltip routines....

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public void ShowTooltip(GameObject slot)
3. {
4.     if (disableItemTooltips)
5.     {
6.        return;
7.      }
8.     // Code to show the tooltip
9. }

No matter what I do in the inspector this does not work (the variable is ALWAYS true, even if I initialize it with = false)
Changing it in the inspector does nothing to the value

The only way I have been able to make it false is by initializing it as false and readonly

I had this issue on two different PCs so I am totally stumped

Ideas?

 

The problem definitely isn't with this code. I feel like if it still changes with the readonly statement then it should throw an error. Nonetheless, select the variable and press shift command Y to see all the other areas its being referenced.

 

You could quite possibly be looking at different variables.

 

I have used "Find all references" in VS and it is definitely not referenced anywhere else and is referenced everywhere it should be. It used to be called disableTooltip but I renamed it in case it was hiding another variable that VS was not showing. I am going to try moving the variable into my game manager class because the script is attached to a GUI element on a canvas and I have seen some other wonkiness with GUI related scripts.

 

OK so I moved the variable to the GameManager script and everything works as expected. There seems to be some ugly bugs regarding scripts attached to GameObjects parented to a GUI Canvas.

 

Any major bugs will set half the community screaming. If it's just you finding them it's probably user error. Most likely this:

 

Upload your scene. I have a feeling adding speculation isn't going to help