Just an FYI

Apparently, when:

Figure 1:

Code (CSharp):

1. try
2. {
3.     return somedictionary["some key that doesn't exist"];
4. }
5. catch(System.Exception e)
6. {
7.     Debug.Log("bad stuff happened: " + e.ToString());
8.     //do something else
9.     return -1;
10. }

and you get some dictionary value not found... and decide to stop the game (you're playing in unity), unity just gets obscenely slow and unresponsive.


I changed it to:

Figure 2:

Code (CSharp):

1. if (somedictionary.ContainsKey("some key that doesn't exist"))
2.     return somedictionary["some key that doesn't exist"];
3. else
4.     return -1;
5.  

And the problem went away after hitting the stop button, so I assume the code in Figure 1 causes some bad stuff in unity. I'm writing this because I didn't save for a little bit... and unity died.

Now you all know. Always check your dictionary keys before using them :/
And rethrow exceptions. I dunno if that's the problem... it might be.

 

Just use TryGetValue.
It returns true when something was found and you get the result via the 'out ...' parameter. Otherwise it return false and you can do alternative stuff.

 

Except that doesn't happen here, so I suspect you have something else going on.

--Eric

 

Oh, it's just me? I'll have to do additional tests later then.