koobas.hobune.stream
No enable/disable check box for a script?
After adding a particular script to a GameObject, I notice that there's no little check box to enable/disable it in the inspector. Would anyone know why this is?
I see that things like Transforms and Mesh Filters don't have that check box either, but I can understand that--they're more low-level sorts of things. I just found it bizarre that a script could be missing this option too.
(Hint: this is happening on one of the NGUI example scripts, if that helps.)
Disabling a script only turns off Update (plus related such as FixedUpdate) and OnGUI, so if those functions aren't present then disabling a script isn't possible.
And also Start.
Note that a script which does not contains any of these methods will not receive the OnDestroy event. Therefore it is sometimes required to have an empty Start method.
You don`t need to have a Start method to receive the OnDestroy event in Unity 2018.4.13f1 (64-bit)
My script had a "OnMouseDown()" only. I also wanted to disable the script (for test reasons). What I did is this:
Add
void Update(){
}
and
void OnMouseDown(){
if(enabled)
do();
}
Having only Start() also enables the on/off checker box from inspector. This means turned off script doesn't process Start(), either.
This is true (unlike Awake() ), and better than using Update() since it won't cause overhead.
