UICamera event call not seeing local field

[Shifty Geezer]

I implemented UICamera based touch movement using a large object on its own layer to capture touches. Reading best practice to use fall through, I'm changing this but hitting a weird snag where the local field shows as populated in the Editor but is null in code.

1. public class IO_touchTracker : MonoBehaviour {
2.         // Uses NGUI event system to track touches
3.         // Send details to objects
4.         public GameObject plyer;                        // Player object to control
5.         public behaviour_tapControl tapScript;                  // Player script to control
6.        
7.         void Start(){
8.                 UICamera.fallThrough = this.gameObject;
9.                 print ("Name "+gameObject.name);
10.         }
11.        
12.         void OnPress (bool isPressed){
13.                 Debug.Log("I was pressed on!");
14.                 if (isPressed){
15.                         Debug.Log("player name"+plyer.name);
16.                         if (plyer != null){
17.                                 tapScript.IO_Pressed (UICamera.lastTouchPosition);
18.                         }
19.                         // Send move command
20.                 }else{
21.                         Debug.Log("I was unpressed");
22.                 }
23.         }
24. }

I see 'Player1' in the field 'plyer' on the Inspector, but in the OnPress event plyer == null.

[ArenMook]

This isn't NGUI-related. Some reference being set or not is either Unity, or -- most likely -- just what you're doing. If it's there in inspector but not there when you play, the most likely candidate is you trying to reference a value outside of the prefab the script is on, which isn't going to work. Look closer at what you're doing.

[Shifty Geezer]

It's there in the Inspector while playing though. Oh, it's working now. Looks like a bug fixed by restarting the PC over night.