Object.Instantiate failing...

Questions & Answers
1

The following code results in errors...

class Test extends MonoBehaviour
{
    public var testObject:GameObject;

    function Start()
    {
        var kFoo:Object = Object.Instantiate(testObject);
    }
}

MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'System.Object.Instantiate'. Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.MethodDispatcherFactory.ProduceExtensionDispatcher () Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.MethodDispatcherFactory.Create () Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices.DoCreateMethodDispatcher (System.Object target, System.Type targetType, System.String name, System.Object[] args) Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices.CreateMethodDispatcher (System.Object target, System.String name, System.Object[] args) Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices+c_AnonStorey13.<>m_7 () Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.DispatcherCache.Get (Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.DispatcherKey key, Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.DispatcherFactory factory) Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices.Dispatch (System.Object target, System.String cacheKeyName, System.Type[] cacheKeyTypes, System.Object[] args, Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.DispatcherFactory factory) Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices.Dispatch (System.Object target, System.String cacheKeyName, System.Object[] args, Boo.Lang.Runtime.DynamicDispatching.DispatcherFactory factory) Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices.Invoke (System.Object target, System.String name, System.Object[] args) UnityScript.Lang.UnityRuntimeServices.Invoke (System.Object target, System.String name, System.Object[] args, System.Type scriptBaseType) Test.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/Test.js:8)

However, if I call Instantiate directly from a GameObject it works...

class Test extends MonoBehaviour
{
    public var testObject:GameObject;

    function Start()
    {
        var kFoo:Object = Instantiate(testObject);
    }
}

What's up with that? According to all documentation, Instantiate is a static function and calling Object.Instantiate should work just fine. At the very least, I should not be getting different results between the two.

Please advise.

Thanks, Jason

2

Note that the error says it cannot find 'System.Object.Instantiate'. You want to use UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate, but it is finding the System one. When you don't specify, it is using the one in that context, which would be the one inherited from UnityEngine.Object through MonoBehaviour.