How to be certain that a script has finished before calling other scripts?

Unity Engine
1

I’m coding in C# and I have a problem. It is a quite big project in Unity and we have a lot of .cs-scripts. Now I have found a problem.

I have a script that runs in the beginning of the application in one of the .cs scripts, in a Awake() and in this Awake() call I do a www post in a StartCoroutine(TheWWWCallToFillAHashTable);

Ok, from here it is easy. But now it seems like this hashtable does not have time to be filled, because I need to call this hashtable from another class in game and then it is empty.

So my question is: Is there any way to be certain that this function has ended before other scripts starts? I have tried with different things (script priority order) but it takes to long time to fill the hashtable so all other scripts have time to start.

Can I pause a c# script on some how?

2

Just use some boolean variable as a switch activated by your first script.

3

Or check whether or not the Hashtable has any values. The better solution is probably to design some kind of loading screen to prevent user interaction while the Hashtable is being populated.

4

You can use the Invoke method. But personally I would use a switch method.

5

You could probably put a coroutine in the start()

6

suddab,

Another option is to add a callback in your TheWWWCallToFillAHashTable that will let you know when it’s finished…

public delegate void FinishedHandler();

public event FinishedHandler Finished;

private void TheWWWCallToFillAHashTable()
{
    // do your calls here, fill the hash table

    if (this.Finished != null)
    {
        this.Finished();
    }
}

and…

this.Finished += this.DoStuffAfterHashTableCompleted;
this.StartCoroutine(TheWWWCallToFillAHashTable);