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whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:32 AM

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hi

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:33 AM

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Ok so basically when you do say public or [SerializeField] private UnityEvent myEvent

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now you see in the inspector

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:33 AM

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right

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:33 AM

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there is the same thing as the InputField?

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:33 AM

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wdym

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:34 AM

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when you add UnityEvent

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to script

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and save

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look at inspector

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:34 AM

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hold on my inspector is frozen

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:36 AM

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alr

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:37 AM

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okay back

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:38 AM

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you did it?

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:39 AM

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I'm trying to find it one sec

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yeah it's set in the insepector

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:40 AM

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whole cove yeah it's set in the insepector

no no

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put a UnityEvent

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in the script that sets the text

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:40 AM

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ohhhh right

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okay

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what's the syntax for that?

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i'm thinking something like
readInput.onEndEdit.AddListener(currentWord)

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:42 AM

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whole cove what's the syntax for that?

for example public UnityEvent whatever

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first do this

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one step at time

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save it and look at inspector

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so you can see what going on

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:42 AM

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oh okay

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:42 AM

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this goes in the main script

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where you change text

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:43 AM

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where in the inspector am i looking?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:43 AM

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whole cove where in the inspector am i looking?

on the script you just added the line to

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ReadInput

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:44 AM

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oh okay okay

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oh i see it lol

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weird

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current word changes fine in the inspector

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but not in the debug

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:45 AM

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wait

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one step at time

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:45 AM

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whole cove oh i see it lol

what do you see

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screenshot it

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:45 AM

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on sec

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:48 AM

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whole cove

you have to tell the other script the name is changed 🙂

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ok you did not add UnityEvent to script though

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Start method is printing the debug is it not?

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:49 AM

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nope

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yes

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should it go in update?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:50 AM

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yea that is something Unity calls

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nah

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make an event

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its very easy

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:50 AM

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but I'm getting currentWord in inspector... isn't that odd?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:50 AM

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whole cove but I'm getting currentWord in inspector... isn't that odd?

why would it be odd ?

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its showing the serialized field that is public

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:51 AM

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ohhh

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but it's not being updated by the script I want to update it to

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:51 AM

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exactly

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you have to tell it somehow

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:51 AM

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okay I added an event listener

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public UnityEvent eventListener;

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:51 AM

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no call it something better

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:51 AM

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wordListener lol

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:52 AM

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public UnityEvent currentWordChanged;

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:52 AM

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ahh

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yes that's better

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:52 AM

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also it has to pass a string

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so with that we add <string>

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public UnityEvent<string> currentWordChanged;

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this is the event

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it will pass string to whoevever gets the event

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:53 AM

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right

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:53 AM

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now save it

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:53 AM

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kk

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:53 AM

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and look at the inspector

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:53 AM

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woahhhh coooolllllllll

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there's my words

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:54 AM

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no..

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it didn't show up

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:54 AM

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no? lol

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:54 AM

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did you add the UnityEvent?

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I dont see it in the inspector

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:54 AM

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yeah i added it to my ChangeImage.cs script

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:54 AM

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no

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that goes in Input script

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i told you already before lol

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:54 AM

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oh my bad lol

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:55 AM

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thats the one that has current word we want to pass with event

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:55 AM

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:55 AM

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Great!

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now inside ChangeImage

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make a method to get that value

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:55 AM

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wait for some reason my word list isn't updating

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:55 AM

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wait dont worry about that

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:56 AM

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okay

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:56 AM

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the changeimage script needs to still get the string

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via event

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make a method inside ChangeImage that gets a string

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make sure its public

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:57 AM

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readInput.AddEventListener();

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:57 AM

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wait no

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:57 AM

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Someting like that?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:57 AM

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dont do that

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:57 AM

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lol okay

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:57 AM

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you need a method

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do you know what a method is

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its a way to do something

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:58 AM

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umm something like private void doSomething(){}

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:58 AM

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right

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but it has to be public and needs to recieve a type string

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do you know how to pass stuff through method ?

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 4:58 AM

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yup one sec

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okay I created a method

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    public void receiveString(string s)
    {

    }

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 4:59 AM

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perfect

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now put Debug.Log(s); inside if you want

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for test

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the last step is to do the same thing you did for InputField

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click + button on the Input script with UnityEvent

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drag in this method inside

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:00 AM

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okay let me try

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:00 AM

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it should be the one that says Dynamic

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you should see this method in there

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:01 AM

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shoot i'm lost as to what to type to get call the event

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:01 AM

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whole cove shoot i'm lost as to what to type to get call the event

thats the last step

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did you plug the method first

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:01 AM

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wdym plug

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:02 AM

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whole cove wdym plug

did you click + sign on unity event CurrentWordChanged

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on ReadInput.cs

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inspector you see there is + button

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:03 AM

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oh no

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:03 AM

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whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:04 AM

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There's no function

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:05 AM

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whole cove There's no function

you have to drag the other script inside

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oh you did

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:05 AM

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yeah

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:05 AM

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click the down arrow

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:05 AM

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yeah nothing

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:05 AM

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find the script

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make sure you dragged the Object that has the script ChangeImage

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not the script from project folder

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make sure its the one from gameobject

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you should be able to find the method

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:07 AM

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:07 AM

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great

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now just call it right

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:08 AM

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wdym call it right?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:08 AM

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an event is invoked with Invoke()

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so it would be currentWordChanged?.Invoke()

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? this symboll is just for null checking, usually not needed in unity event

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and since its a string event

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it expects a string

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:09 AM

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:09 AM

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nooo ofc we call this from the script that has the event lol

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:10 AM

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lol

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dang

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:10 AM

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put Debug.Log inside reciveString

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Debug.Log(s);

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:11 AM

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:11 AM

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yes but every time it changes

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and the error is telling you what I told you

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it expects a string

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and what are we passing around that we care about and did this whole thing ?

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:12 AM

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we're passing around the words?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:12 AM

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also currentWord has no Invoke

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thats not how that works

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Invoke is called from event

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:12 AM

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wait slow down

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let me think about what's happening

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:13 AM

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its like a notification

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same concept

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lol you literally just made it, which one is the event

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:14 AM

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so i've created an event listener and now i'm trying to pass it?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:14 AM

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no this isnt the listener

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this is the Invoker

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it doesnt care about other scripts

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it just calls an event aka Invoke()

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any scripts that "listens" gets notified

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the only care about the event

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this event passses a string

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so other scripts listening can do whatever when they get this new string

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the listener in this case is the ChangeImage script

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currentWordChanged?.Invoke(currentWord); 
//Invoke event for everyone with value of string currentWord  ```

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:19 AM

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okay I invoked it

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:20 AM

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whole cove

looks fine here

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how does receiveString look

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:21 AM

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    public void receiveString(string s)
    {
        Debug.Log(s);
    }

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:21 AM

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ok good now delete the whole Start method

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:22 AM

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done

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:22 AM

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ok did you also put the invoke the other spot where you change word

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cause only awake will just invoke once

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:22 AM

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GetRandomWord?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:23 AM

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whole cove GetRandomWord?

if you put it there you have to delete invoke from the awake method

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or it runs twice

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:24 AM

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https://gdl.space/agegaqasik.cs

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:24 AM

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no...

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you deleted the wrong start

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lol

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:24 AM

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yeah I deleted change image lol

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is it necessary to delete?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:25 AM

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oh u just moved the code to awake here

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yeah you dont need awake or start inside ChangeImage

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:25 AM

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yeah

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:25 AM

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anyway move currentWordChanged?.Invoke(currentWord); from awake

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to maybe before return of change word?

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 //  Remove the selected word from the list
        placeholderWords.RemoveAt(randomIndex);
        //alert other scripts word changed
        currentWordChanged?.Invoke(currentWord);
        // Return the selected word
        return randomWord;```

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if you followed everything , you should now see console print every time you change word

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:28 AM

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Where should I put those two lines?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:28 AM

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look carefully

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its your own code xD

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try to somewhat get familiar with it

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:29 AM

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okay lol

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oh d'oh

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i wasn't paying attention hahahahaha

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awesome it works

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only issue is that it prints the debug a lot haha

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:33 AM

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whole cove only issue is that it prints the debug a lot haha

yeah Over 9999+ times

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hmm send both current scripts real quick

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want to check something

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:34 AM

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kk

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https://gdl.space/iqunapiwub.cs

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https://gdl.space/oyigasuquf.cs

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:34 AM

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there is ur problem

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  void Update()
    {
        Debug.Log(readInput.currentWord);
    }

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:34 AM

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also this is odd but it wont update the text anymore, it is stuck on japanese

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:35 AM

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// Update is called once per frame

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:35 AM

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oh hahahahahahaha

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:35 AM

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whole cove oh hahahahahahaha

in fact you dont really need SerializeField] private ReadInput readInput; anymore for this

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now you're getting the value thru event

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everytime its Invoked, which is GetRandomWord

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:37 AM

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should i delete serializedfield?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:37 AM

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whole cove should i delete serializedfield?

you can

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:37 AM

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kk

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and what do we do about the word not changing?

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gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:37 AM

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whole cove and what do we do about the word not changing?

where is not changing ?

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those values wont change now

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:38 AM

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Placeholder words

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:38 AM

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you have to use the inspector

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it already serialized the first time with those words

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so any changes to script init fields wont change

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:39 AM

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so is placeHolder words even necessary anymore?

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:39 AM

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string randomWord = placeholderWords[randomIndex];

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you are using it

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if you want to change values now, you use the + - in the inspector list

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:40 AM

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i really need to go through this code and understand what's happening

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thank you so much for helping me

gray minnow Nov 21, 2023, 5:41 AM

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sure no problem!
its not easy jumping into these intricate mecahnics without knowing some of the basics of code 🙂

whole cove Nov 21, 2023, 5:42 AM

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yup ypu :)

#make a thread I'll explain it