C# Events in Unity

[@InfallibleCode]

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[@misterrhombus]

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[@KarasawaL30]

I know people find the format silly, but honestly I think this is the best way I've been able to learn these concepts so far. Better than some overly happy dude telling me how easy it is while royalty free music blasts my ears and he codes right past me at 2x speed. Then tells me how easy it was. But I'm not bitter or anything. Anyway awesome tutorial, thank you very much!

[@EduardoYukio]

This is the most didactic type of tutorial I've ever seen. It's short, walks you step by step, shows you every click and alt-tab, teaches you the definition of the concept and its usability, just perfect.

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i wish i could Skype myself for answers

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[@InfallibleCode]

It’s a delicate balance lmao

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​@@InfallibleCode, I think you mean that it's a DELIGATE balance! Sorry terrible joke!

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@@InfallibleCode the ultra high humor factor keeps us going.

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I am definitely purple-shirt-charles in this story! Haha. This format is pretty funny but actually really helpful. Great work!

[@InfallibleCode]

LOL Purple shirt Charles’ name is Barles 😜

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😂

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@@InfallibleCode ​ Hey thank you guys for making these videos

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[@StefanLopuszanski]

Huh, didn't know about the null conditional operator. That's neat.

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"whatever floats your boat man" my favorite phrase for day or two

[@Gabriel-ml7ev]

This format is hilarious it feels like an English lesson

[@jakem4638]

Underrated channel, please keep up the good work!!

[@AbdulazizAlmawash]

Now i see what seems to always make me quit a project.. tight coupling. entering the loop of fixing this and breaking that. I guess there isn’t an escape from watching an events tutorial. Liked.

[@guysome3263]

These are so goofy, they make me smile throughout. Nonetheless a very effective way of communicating new concepts.

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I just found your channel and this is the second video of yours I've watched. I really like this format! Subbed

[@ayyythatguy]

I just realised that the whole 'bunch of doors and keys would slow down the code with useless checks' is the reason why Skyrim used to become slow. I remember being told to throw away my keys and suddenly the game's loading times were super quick haha.

[@jikiller8530]

Can't thank you enough for making these videos, this "tutorial" and the interfaces one have really helped me. Subbed!

[@clement630]

Day 40 of lockdown: talking to myself on skype

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

lmao.

[@illsaveus]

This friend of yours is the nicest dood on the whole planet

[@teganhakim8910]

I love the way you present information in a fun and easy way to remember. Keep up the good vids bro.

[@BlueGuitarMusic]

I love the "Cool" and "thanks" interaction over the keypad. Like 'yes we will be learning about Events here but also- how to give and receive a respectful compliment to a friend/coworker'.

[@shaunyitisme3293]

Still, my number one channel to recommend to Unity beginners and intermediate. Gj man :)

[@mrgscreen6541]

Man, this is a new level, you'll soon overcome brackeys in creativity :)

[@onon128]

Mrg Screen he is way more creative than brackeys

[@anon746912]

This video is perfect. Thank you for making it, I've been wondering about these for ages!

[@scrawnyrabbit]

So much pedagogy. Well done Charles !

[@agredek]

Nice video. Definitely will help some less experienced developers. Only one question comes to mind: in an example as simple as this, do we really need to create a delegate? Why not just use Action class?

[@gadgetboyplaysmc]

Can't wait for Charles and Charles for their Romance arc. 2:39

[@Stevedeniese]

Awesome thanks man, this video is exactly the example I needed to get my head around which events system to use.

[@austinheydari1813]

i think it's better to pass the code (as int or string) as an argument for the unlockHandler. that way the logic to see if the code matches is in the door and not in the keypad. also if others subscribe to the keypad, you won't have to touch the door code anymore. Using interface for this is also recommended, you will be able to reuse your code more easily.

[@quadriproduction]

3rd perfect video.Jobs,Interface and now Events.keep going with this type of videos please..people will be very glad..I am sure

[@ruslanrakhimov1556]

Charles is the type of dude to ask himself for help.

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

nah, thats BARLES

[@SajithGame]

I was looking for this. Thanks!

[@lando6583]

y'all gonna be bigger than Brackeys. love the content!

[@monkeyrobotsinc.9875]

SHUT UP!!

[@DerObernator]

Sir you have a very good method of teaching! keep up the good work and thank you :)

[@quocvnguyen7117]

I love it. Helpful and peaceful.

[@keelanbowker-obrien2222]

Yeah acting aside this was actually an extremely helpful way to hep me understand the events system. The only thing I'd add is maybe some additional visuals when you're talking about the KeypadDoor.cs when you mention the matching signatures. I'm still a noob and because I don't understand the terminology, I didn't comprehend what was being conveyed there.

[@InfallibleCode]

Thank you for your feedback. I’m gonna make a follow up video that dives into a more advanced explanation so this is a great suggestion 👍

[@keelanbowker-obrien2222]

@@InfallibleCode Wow! Thanks for responding and in general putting out just really great an informative stuff. This channel is just enormously helpful :)

[@simon.in.motion]

Hello Charles, I wonder, why using C# events instead of UnityEvents for this example ? I find it way more modular to set a OnCodeSuccess UnityEvent and set the reference to the handler in the editor. That way you can also trigger AudioSources or other stuff without writing any more code, just adding it in the inspector. Any thoughts ? Cheers :)

[@kbkmn]

practical examples are great! do a factory method one. i can't grasp why do i need to use factory if i can just instantiate

[@bryanmarino1921]

I don't understand why he created the KeypadDoor subclass instead of subscribe the event directly from the Door superclass.

[@dennisgonzales9521]

A more shorter way of creating an event public event Action EventName(); remember to use the namespace using System;

[@capsey_]

Is there a difference between using Action and custom delegate? I know that Action is just a delegate that already defined in System, but is there a drawback to use Action instead of delegate?

[@Dbl_Plus_Good]

Love your videos Charles! Where have you been dude? Hope all is well.

[@InfallibleCode]

Just taking a little mental health break. But I’ll be back soon! Gonna get back to regular uploads in a few weeks 😄

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@@InfallibleCode Good to hear dude! Take all the time you need. We're just glad you're not dead : )

[@InfallibleCode]

@@Dbl_Plus_Good I really appreciate that! I'm still alive and kicking, and planning to resume regular uploads in a few weeks :D

[@Schodemeiss]

Near the start of the video you discounted having a coupling to the door class. Does an event like this not still create the same class coupling anyway??

[@mrgscreen6541]

Yee man, you're right, it's coupling. As I understood, to decouple things in a similar way try to use broadcast messenger wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/CSharpMessenger_Extended but it's not integrated in unity, unfortunately

[@sigmundurjohansen7166]

OMG this was so silly, yet so effective! haha genius!

[@spadelight951]

Thanks ma dude.

[@FlaurensLBO]

Great video as always. I have a question: Is it important to call Unlock.Invoke()? I normally call Unlock()...

[@Mr_Whizzard]

This video is ridiculously hand-holdy. ... and it's exactly what I needed ::sob:: THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@diegoduarte187]

Good video, what kind of keyboard do you have?

[@adek445]

Love that style! :D

[@InfallibleCode]

Appreciate it :D

[@darkman237]

In the keypaddoor class, wouldn't you use OnEnable and OnDisable?

[@Chubzdoomer]

Yeah, that tends to be the best practice. Honestly though, if the object isn't being disabled and then re-enabled it doesn't make much of a difference.

[@MQNGameDev]

Thanks for the cool video. I love using C# events but I often run into an issue where the subscriber tries to subscribe to the event before Unity has Started the GameObject that holds the event. Any tips on how to avoid the issue? I know I could go into my project settings and adjust the Execution order but it feels like more of a hack than a solution and often leads to other issues.

[@gegenton3953]

Having watched both C# Events and UnityEvents videos, I'm having an issue with operations that need to run in Update() but listen to specific events. For specific reasons I want my character to lerp (that can only run in Update?) based on Events that are triggered from a User Input class. However you can only reference a method (e. g. MoveRight()) as a listener in the UnityEvents list for "InputRight". I currently have a workaround with a bool set to true in the MoveRight() function that the update function has as an input for an if-clause. But this looks very ugly and can't be right. Any ideas on how to solve this (other than creating a single class for all different types of movement and referencing the update method)? Love your videos, very "explaining", rather than "telling"!

[@RohitSharma-vq2gn]

I feel indebted :)

[@adamzimmerman2464]

My music major ass just thinks of the note C# lol

[@mufelo]

Hey, any chance you could make a video about using events in ECS. I have found some methods that feel a bit like work arounds and I have built eventqueues myself using NativeQueue but not sure what the best practices are for keeping things thread safe. I have not ran into any huge problems with concurrency yet but I havent built anything bigger either.

[@sebastianwardana1527]

so objects that are attached to and interact with an object should be a subclass of the object they interact with?

[@chris.davidoff]

Stoked to see this! I do the exact same thing for my inventory's UI updates. Some people talk about performance use of events.. I'd love to see numbers on directly calling a function vs one getting called through an event. To give a ball park, I think a C# event will take ~ 50ms for 10 million invokes based on this reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/35oekm/delegate_events_vs_unityevent_which_one_is/

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[@justahuman4862]

Very cool. Way over my head. Haha

[@davidpage9241]

It's like when my rubber ducky talks back to me!

[@bm1006]

Hello Charles, Thanks for the tutorial. What version of Unity does this work best in? I imported your project's package into Unity 2020.3.32f1 but the numbers on the keypad are missing and the textures on the walls/doors don't look the same as in the video. Thanks!

[@josebarria3233]

The ?. Operator blew my mind

[@robertkadrgulov6615]

Hi, dude, what keyboard do you use? what do you call a mointor

[@darkman237]

What if you wanted to keep all your delegates in one place? A master script?

[@PeterMilko]

Good stuff man! Im down to be a person in your videos if you need anyone.

[@rani600]

What do you guys feel on actions instead of delegates? easier to make events that way in my opinion, and feels much cleaner in a scaleable project, instead of each time to create a delegate, Great video as always btw!!

[@rani600]

@@bezoro-personal I guess it depends on how you view, if you name the action properly, it's seems much clearer then delegates.

[@CSPlayerDamon]

Actions are delegates as well. They don't scale as well though. Imagine having 20+ events and 100+ variables that you defined as Action. Somewhere down the line you decide that must be Action instead. Now you have to go change those 20 definitions and 100 variables to Action. If you had defined a delegate, though, you'd only need to modify the delegate. That, though, doesn't help you from having to change all the code you wrote to use a string instead of int. Events only scale well if you're sure or close to being sure what the event is for. In general, using an interface or a delegate scales better than Action or Func. Lastly, if you're too unsure on what parameters the delegate / action should have, you could make a class / struct for the parameter and populate the class. That way your code will break only if you change the return type or change the class data. You should avoid that, though, and focus on describing the event as best as you can.

[@CSPlayerDamon]

@@bezoro-personal Situations like that are mostly found in event-heavy applications, i.e turn-based games, low level networking, retained-mode UIs (like the new UI from Unity), etc... The new Unity UIElements is a mighty example of that thought process. It uses a generic RegisterCallback to handle registering of events, where the generic type may be a completely different event every time. Check it out if you have the time!

[@vaporalight3670]

At 1:24, What is Type Coupling?

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By the way, your link to Editor Console Pro is the same as your Rainbow Folders 2 link :-P

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What theme and font was at 1:55 ?

[@caithid1951]

I hope I can get helped by myself when I stuck at my code.

[@dknighter2]

Are C# Events better then using UnityEvents?

[@cubasia16222]

But what if you have 10 doors and 10 keypad ? You need 10 subclass? And what if the number of door in the room is generated randomly ?

[@Rizzan8]

No, you don't need to create KeypadDoor1, KeypadDoor2, etc for each of your door. You simply add KeypadDoor script to each of your door objects and your desired keypad to the KeypadDoor of each door.

[@r3s3tme]

Why not system.action = delegate? Less code no null check

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name IDE ur using ?

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[@MrStonedLover]

Where is the diffrent between Events and Action from c# ?

[@MrStonedLover]

@@bezoro-personal nice cause I use it in the past and just wounder where the difference is :D

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****SCREAMS IN SKYPE****

[@josh_swanson]

!!Link error in description: Editor Console Pro links to Rainbow Folders 2

[@archentity]

I have watched tons of videos on this and none of it works for me. No matter what I keep getting the same null object reference error at runtime. Everyone says it's so simple and wonderful, but I must be the only idiot not getting it. It's as if no matter what I do, I cannot subscribe to an event in another class. It doesn't matter if I use UnityEvents or C# events.

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Back to talking to himself again. :feelsbad:

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I have to talk to SOMEONE during this quarantine 😂

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I want to FaceTime this man

[@scififan698]

it's 2020 and you're still using delegates? hmmm.

[@TheSpacecraftX]

Feels weird calling Door a subclass. It's a base class. If anything, intuitively, any class that inherits from it would be the subclass.

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