How to debug GetUnity().SendMessage?

Unity Engine
1

Hi all,

I am trying to use the following code from the web browser in order to update the player name in my game:

GetUnity().SendMessage(“3rd Person Controller”, “initSetPlayerName”, “Player 1”);

However, nothing seems to happen, so I was wondering if someone would have an idea how I can debug this. There are no javascript errors in the browser and GetUnity() returns a valid object.

I also did the following in the game just to check that my game object and function names are correct and that worked ok:

GameObject test=GameObject.Find(“3rd Person Controller”);
test.SendMessage( “initSetPlayerName”, “Player 1”);

Any other ideas for how I could further debug this?

Regards,

Olli

2

Ok it seems to be because I am using SendMessage in the onload method, so I assume the reason is because Unity has not been fully loaded yet.

Does anyone know how I could detect that Unity is loaded? Is there something in the Unity object for that?

Regards,

Olli

3

Hi!
Your best bet is probably to have unity call the external javascript function whenever Unity is ready for example in Awake():

pseudo code below;
Awake
if (Application.isEditor) {
initSetPlayerName (editorplayer);
} else {
Application.ExternalCall (“yourfunction”);
}
}
function yourfunction()
GetUnity().SendMessage(“3rd Person Controller”, “initSetPlayerName”, “Player 1”);

OK?

4

Yes of course, how did I not think of that.

Works great. Thanks for your help!

Olli