Referencing a List in a new thread only working ingame

I'm just fiddling around creating a half assed listener but it only seems to work after I press play and not in the editor.

Uploaded code if you want to take a look, but anyone know how I can get it to work in the editor?

Edit: Oh ya, when I was testing in play mode I started the thread from OnEnable instead of when its selected. Even when I remove the while(.... Sleep... in the thread function it does not seem to progress in the editor at all.

 

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Ok sorry about that.

Here is first, just handles calling OnSelect and OnDeselect.

Spoiler: First Script

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using System.Linq;
4. using UnityEditor;
5. using UnityEngine;
6.  
7.  
8. [ExecuteInEditMode]
9. public class OnObjectSelectionCaller : MonoBehaviour {
10.  
11. #if UNITY_EDITOR
12.  
13.     GameObject[] lastSelected = new GameObject[0];
14.     List<GameObject> checkDeselection = new List<GameObject>();
15.  
16.  
17.     void Update () {
18.  
19.         if (Selection.gameObjects.Length > 0)
20.         {
21.             if (!Enumerable.SequenceEqual(lastSelected, Selection.gameObjects))
22.             {
23.                 foreach (GameObject go in Selection.gameObjects)
24.                 {
25.                     go.SendMessage("OnSelected");
26.                     checkDeselection.Add(go);
27.                 }
28.  
29.                 lastSelected = Selection.gameObjects;
30.             }
31.  
32.         }
33.  
34.         if(checkDeselection.Count > 0)
35.         {
36.             foreach(GameObject go in checkDeselection)
37.             {
38.                 if (!Selection.gameObjects.Contains(go))
39.                 {
40.                     go.SendMessage("OnDeselected");
41.                     checkDeselection.Remove(go);
42.                 }
43.             }
44.         }
45.      
46.        
47.      
48.     }
49. #endif
50.  
51. }
52.  

Here is second script. Which has the multithreading, and the thread is not working in editor, only play.

Spoiler: Second Script

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using System.Threading;
4. using UnityEngine;
5. using System;
6. using System.Linq;
7. using UnityEditor;
8.  
9. [ExecuteInEditMode]
10. public class MultiThreadedListenerTest : MonoBehaviour {
11.  
12.     public delegate void EventHandler();
13.     public event EventHandler OnFinishThread;
14.  
15.     public List<bool> aBool = new List<bool>();
16.     public List<bool> bBool = new List<bool>();
17.  
18.  
19.     public Thread myThread;
20.  
21.     void OnEnable () {
22.         //StartMyThead(() => { EventCaller(ref aBool, ref bBool); });
23.  
24.         if (!Application.isPlaying) return;
25.  
26.         OnFinishThread += PrintMessage;
27.     }
28.  
29.     void OnDisable () {
30.         OnFinishThread -= PrintMessage;
31.     }
32.  
33.  
34.     void OnSelected()
35.     {
36.         Debug.Log("OnSelected()");
37.         StartMyThead(() => { EventCaller(ref aBool, ref bBool); });
38.     }
39.  
40.  
41.     void OnDeselected()
42.     {
43.         Debug.Log("OnDeselected()");
44.         myThread.Abort();
45.         myThread = null;
46.     }
47.  
48.     public void PrintMessage()
49.     {
50.         Debug.Log("The Event has been called from the new Thread");
51.     }
52.  
53.     public void StartMyThead(Action function)
54.     {
55.         if (myThread == null || !myThread.IsAlive)
56.         {
57.             Debug.Log("Start Thread");
58.             myThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(function));
59.             myThread.Start();
60.         }
61.  
62.     }
63.  
64.     public void EventCaller(ref List<bool> _a, ref List<bool> _b )
65.     {
66.         //while(_a == _b)
67.         while (Enumerable.SequenceEqual(_a.OrderBy(fElement => fElement), _b.OrderBy(sElement => sElement)))
68.         {
69.  
70.             Thread.Sleep(1);
71.         }
72.  
73.         OnFinishThread();
74.     }
75. }
76.