setting Button.normalSprite doesn't take affect

[bkinsey]

In my game I have several game objects with UIButton scripts, and they usually start off disabled. (i.e. lots of panels are not shown on game start)

When I set the button's normalSprite member and activate the game object, the new sprite is not drawn. I've also tried activating first and setting the sprite second, but it didn't change the result.  If I deactivate and re-activate the widget's, the correct sprite is now displayed.

Question: When setting a button's normalSprite, do I need to call any method to make the change final?  It looks like there is some kind of caching going on, or some reason when I set the sprite name, it doesn't immediately take effect.  I started noticing this in happening recently, maybe in 3.7.5 and 3.7.6.. my buttons are appearing with their default images, despite me setting them in code to different images.

[bkinsey]

On further investigation it looks like the sprite is not initialized, so setting it does nothing.

I had to force the buttons OnInit to be called, by calling the normalSprite 'get' method:

1. // This is purely to force NGUI to initialize its internal sprite object.
2. string x = mGuideVisitorButton.Button.normalSprite;
3.  

Can you expose the OnInit method so that I can call it myself, or maybe figure out a more elegant solution? (We'd still want a safeguard preventing init from happening more than once)

[ArenMook]

Simply add a call to it at the top of the 'set' just like there is at the top of 'get':

1.         public string normalSprite
2.         {
3.                 get
4.                 {
5.                         if (!mInitDone) OnInit();
6.                         return mNormalSprite;
7.                 }
8.                 set
9.                 {
10.                         if (!mInitDone) OnInit(); // <-- right here
11.                         if (mSprite != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(mNormalSprite) && mNormalSprite == mSprite.spriteName)
12.                         {
13.                                 mNormalSprite = value;
14.                                 SetSprite(value);
15.                                 NGUITools.SetDirty(mSprite);
16.                         }
17.                         else
18.                         {
19.                                 mNormalSprite = value;
20.                                 if (mState == State.Normal) SetSprite(value);
21.                         }
22.                 }
23.         }

[bkinsey]

So simple, I like it!  Thanks, I will add this in.  I hope you add this in too.. so I get it in future releases.

[ArenMook]

Of course.