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Executing a string as a code snippet.
This question has been asked numerous of times, but I still haven't found a working solution on this. I have several sprites that act as buttons (the UI buttons are unusable in this scenario). The button needs to execute a function on a different script. Now, I want to make a public string so that I can input the function name in the editor for every single button, so that every button calls a different function.
Is there a way to somehow convert a string to an executable piece of code, so that it can be run in a script both in the Editor and at Runtime?
I know this can be done in JS using eval() but I am using C#, so that won't work.
In your case you can use Send$$anonymous$$essage but this is a terrible solution.
Can't you use Unity events?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unityevent-where-have-you-been-all-my-life.321103/
I've never heard about Unity Events! I'll check it out!
This is what Hellium said in his comment:
In your case you can use SendMessage but this is a terrible solution.
Can't you use Unity events?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unityevent-where-have-you-been-all-my-life.321103/
This is the correct answer.
Just use Invoke("string"). That works fine
Why you devote this? That works perfectly fine.
You could use UnityEvents too
Very uncool to devote somebody who just wants to help with something that works
Invoke can be great for prototyping, but is a nightmare for code maintability because you pass the name of the function as a string.
You can't refactor the name of the function without doing a
Find & Replacein your IDEThe stacktrace is a nightmare to follow when a function has been called by the
InvokemethodYou can't pass arguments with to the method called by
Invoke
