DelayedDelegates - Centralise way to call a function at a specific time

Unity Engine
1

Not sure if this helps anyone but it served a purpose for us. Thought I’d quickly post it for everyone:

http://unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=DelayedDelegates

It’s a static class that allows you to call a function with a delay and a parameter (or a customer set of parameters) (float,int,Vector2,Vector3,string,GameObject)

void MyFunction(int param)
{

   // Do something with param

}

// Replace '1' with your int, float, etc....
DelayedDelegates.Add(MyFunction, 1, 2)

You can inherit from DelegateParameters if you need custom params sent through:

public class MyParams : DelegateParameters
{
   public int myParam1;
   public string myParam2;

   public MyParams(int myParam1, string myParam2)
   {
      this.myParam1 = myParam1;
      this.myParam2 = myParam2;
   }
}

void MyFunction(DelegateParameters param)
{
   MyParams myParam = (MyParams) param;

   Debug.Log(myParam.myParam1 + " : " + myParam.myParam2);

}


DelayedDelegates.Add(MyFunction, new MyParams(1,"HELLOW WORLD"), 2);

It might seem like more code to do the same thing that Invoke does but it’s a bit nicer and easier to manage between MonoBehaviour scripts :slight_smile:

2

Added DelayedDelegates.RunAll() and DelayedDelegates.Skip(DelayedDelegate method, int skipFrames) which skips frames instead of time.