OnAwake alike function ?

I have been wondering how can i create Awake or Start alike functions since the OnEntityEnable from BehaviourComponent is executed after the OnUpdate method from the component system?

 

I don't think there is one at this point in time. I could be wrong, so I hope one of the devs answers this. For now you can recreate the Awake function by using a static bool in the system where you need it. The static bool never reloads, so it will never run twice. The start function can be recreated by setting a bool on a component and then setting it to true once you ran what you wanted to. This way when you re-enter the 'scene' it will run again because the component loads again.

 

For entities you can also create a component used for initialization, and have a system execute code for all entities with that component, then remove the component. This will cause the entity to be picked up only once, and will make sure that no unneeded code is still executed for checking a boolean-value.

Example:

Code (CSharp):

1. export class InitializationSystem extends ut.ComponentSystem {
2.     OnUpdate (): void {
3.         this.world.forEach([ut.Entity, game.InitializationComponent], (entity, initializeComponent) => {
4.             //Execute initialization code for the entity.
5.             this.world.removeComponent(entity, game.InitializationComponent);
6.         });
7.     }
8. }

 

Code (CSharp):

1. namespace game {
2.     export class DataProcessorBehaviour extends ComponentBehaviour {
3.  
4.         // Somehow, Tiny will read this and fill the variable with the properly contents
5.         data: DataProcessorFilter
6.  
7.         OnEntityEnable() {
8.             // Initialization here
9.         }
10.     }
11.  
12.     export class DataProcessorFilter extends EntityFilter {
13.         entity: ut.Entity
14.         mydataComponent: MyDataComponent      
15.     }
16. }