Request: ManualUpdate of panels/widgets

[Nicki]

I have a request. Because of the script execution "bug" I've encountered earlier (old forums), I've made a modification to NGUI that fixes it.

The problem was that some things tended to only be drawn an update later than it was activated, causing a single frame of empty screen, which is weird in a paged menu.

I've added two methods to UIPanel.cs and UIWidget respectively to get this to activate and draw immediately.

1. public void RefreshNow()
2. {
3.    gameObject.BroadcastMessage("ManualUpdate", SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
4. }
5.  

1. virtual public void ManualUpdate()
2. {
3.   if (this.enabled) panel.AddWidget(this);
4. }
5.  

Every time I update NGUI (which is quite often, go Aren) I have to add this again, but since I could see others having the same problem, I want to request that this is added to NGUI (or something of a similar fashion).

[ArenMook]

Have you tried broadcasting "CreatePanel" instead?

[Nicki]

I have not, but I'll try right now.

[Nicki]

Well jeez, way to make my work much easier! just broadcasting CreatePanel on the gameObject I would have called RefreshNow on, does it just as well.

Thank you.