C# Children of GameObject has it's script disabled after SetActive(false) and SetActive(true)

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Here's the situation:

A have a bunch of buttons and an Input Text Field as children to a Panel. I need to set them invisible at the start of the scene and visible after some conditions are met. For that i use this:

 public void HidePanel()
     {
         Panel.gameObject.SetActive(false);
     }
 
 .....
 .....
 .....
 .....
 
 public void ShowPanel()
     {
         Panel.gameObject.SetActive(true);
     }

After I set the Panel active, it sure does pop-up in the scene and the buttons attached to it too. However the buttons animation are dead and so is the InputTextField I have in there too. I can't even type in the Input Text Field. I use the regular buttons and Input Text Field that come with Unity.

I tried putting the panel in a different Canvas, same thing happened. I tried putting the panel in a differente Scene, same result.

Please help, I have been in this situation for the past 4 days and I can't be stuck in this situation for much more time, for I need to delivery this project soon.

My english is not the best, so I'm sorry if it is a confusing question. If you need more information, please ask.

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Answer by Ermiq · Aug 27, 2018 at 07:07 PM

Try to add 'OnEnable()' method in the panel's script and call an initialize stuff there to re-enable/re-assign all it's components. When you have disabled a gameObject it may 'forget' all its stuff. So, if you have some code that initializes animations and other panel stuff in its start or awake, drag this code in a separate method and call this method in OnEnable():

 void Start() {
     Init();
 }

 void Init() {
     // all your panel initialization code here
     animations = GetComponent<Animator>();
     text = GetComponent<Text>();
     // 
 }

  void OnEnable() {
      Init();
  }

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Empire230 · Aug 28, 2018 at 01:39 PM 0

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Well that did work for other animation issue that I did not post here, but the real issue that some other user told me was that I forgot to add the Event System to the scene, hehe... big fail.

However your answer sure did help me in this other issue were animations were missing too. So: thank you very much @Ermiq :)

C# Children of GameObject has it's script disabled after SetActive(false) and SetActive(true)

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