Add "initRetro" event to addClassEventHandler

[PabstMirror]

• Adds ability to run init code on all current and future objects via addClassEventHandler

Example usage:

["SettingsInitialized", {
    if (feature_enabled) then {
        ["CAManBase", "initRetro", {
            systemChat format ["Enable Feature On %1", _this]
        }] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;
    };
} call ace_common_fnc_addEventHandler;

Normal "init" would have no effect on existing units because unit's init event has already happened by the time the settingsInit event has happened.

[nicolasbadano]

Looks interesting

[Killswitch00]

Looks useful. I'm pondering if there are other ways of naming the event. Still thinking...

[commy2]

Why not make the _runRetroactiveInit flag an additional parameter of the function, instead of creating a new event name (that could potentially collide with something BI creates at some point even if very unlikely) ?

[nicolasbadano]

I was thinking the same, but that function has two optional parameters already, and _runRetroactiveInit would only work for one event type.

I have two wacky alt proposals:

• Make the initRetro a wrapper function around CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler, that just adds the init event and sepparately runs it for existing objects.
• Or more daringly: make initRetro behaviour the default "init" behaviour

[PabstMirror]

I was not sure about the event name; I think commy2 's idea would look like this:

Parameters:
5: _applyInitRetroactivly - Apply "init" event type on existing units that have already been initilized. [optional] (default: false)

To Call:

["CAManBase", "init", {systemChat str _this}, true, [], true] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

If we like this way more, I will make the changes

[jonpas]

I like the optional argument more, don't really see a need for a completely separate event.

[Killswitch00]

Agree - I prefer to have it as an optional argument to CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler.

[PabstMirror]

Updated

[commy2]

I added another check to not do weird stuff with events that are not "init" and "initPost"

[nicolasbadano]

As far as I can tell, it should be spelled Retroactively