Question by Epsilone · Sep 02, 2021 at 01:15 PM · ui text inheritance override order-of-execution

Inheriting text class messed up Execution Order

Long story short, I was creating a personal Text class by inheriting the unity one, when a bunch of strange behavior of my script lead me to this discovery: the order of events like Start, OnEnable, OnDestroy etc was completely messed up.

I've simplified the class to its minimum :

 using UnityEngine.UI;
     
         public class MyText : Text
         {
             protected override void Awake() => print("Awake ");     
             protected override void Start() => print("Start");             
             protected override void OnEnable() => print("OnEnable");
             protected override void OnDestroy() => print("OnDestroy  ");
         }
     }

Here is the result of executing a scene with this component on a gameobject:

1) When we enter play mode, it will log: