koobas.hobune.stream
Built in method to check if Start function was already called?
Consider an object of this class:
public class Interactable : MonoBehaviour {
private List<Object> list;
public void Start() {
// Initialize multiple variables
list= new List<>();
list.Add(new Object());
}
public void Select() {
// Uses initialized variables, so it needs to be called after Start()
Debug.Log(list[0]);
}
}
The Select() method is called whenever player looks at the Interactable object and is called in a different script. It works fine most of the time, but when the object spawns right in front of the player, the Select() is called before Start() and it results in NullReferenceException, as the variables are not initialized yet (in this example list == null). I cannot use Awake() function for initialization.
My approach was to create a bool isInitialized = false; which would be changed to true in Start(), but I was wandering if there is a built-in method to find if Start was called?
