Toggling a game object between an active and inactive state

Questions & Answers
1

I have an application I’m developing for iOS. When an object is touched, it disappears, adds points to a score, and then respawns in a new location after 5 seconds. I’m having trouble with the object respawning, but the essential problem is in the abbreviated script I wrote below. Why doesn’t this code re-activate the game object and what’s the best way to toggle between active and inactive for iOS?

function Start () {

	gameObject.active = false; 
    yield WaitForSeconds(5.0); // wait for 5 seconds        
    gameObject.active = true; 
    yield WaitForSeconds(5.0); // wait for 5 seconds 
    gameObject.active = false; 
    yield WaitForSeconds(5.0); // wait for 5 seconds        
    gameObject.active = true;

}
2

I believe what is happening is that when you deactivate ‘this’ gameObject, it stops processing scripts at all. So you can instead deactivate the renderer on this this object, or put the script on another object that references this object.