Custom Events and non MonoBehaviour class

Unity Engine
1

Hi,

I have been playing around with events in Unity, specifically with a tutorial available about them (http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/intermediate/scripting/events) and when I have only MonoBehaviour classes ( listeners and the event manager) my tests work as expected. However, now I am trying to do the same but using a listener that is a non -MonoBehaviour, it represents a state of my FSM, and the events are not triggered.

Question: In order to make events work, listeners have to be MonoBehaviour classes? If so, is there a workaround when the class is non MonoBehaviour ?

Thanks in advance

2

I found out what the problem was. I was using OnEnable and OnDisable to subscribe the events but in my non- MonoBehaviour class those functions are not available. So I have to use another methods to add and delete the events. Thanks

3

What I do is make a MonoBehaviour called RuntimeManager which is on an empty gameobject. In the non MonoBehaviour class I have OnAwake() for instance, and in RuntimeManager call OnAwake from Awake().

Ex.

using System;
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class EventHolder
{
    public event EventHandler Event01;

    public void OnAwake()
    {
        Event01 += InvokeAction;
    }

    void InvokeAction(object o, EventArgs args)
    {
        return;
    }

}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class RuntimeManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    EventHolder eventHolder = new EventHolder();

    void Awake()
    {
        eventHolder.OnAwake();
    }
}
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