Event Dispatchers still confuse me : help?

[FGS-Gladman (Gladman)]

@Finn;461087

Hi Sinarisinestro,

I appreciate that. The thing is I have made stuff like this before in other software, i still have note books of my process but I have the idea of how to get it to work.

I am however used to working with things that either work two ways. One is to save info (name of file, and the info ) into a file on disk, then access that and do what you need to do. That wouldn’t be too bad, except that I find writing out data to a simple text file is not straight forward.

The second way i’ve done this is using a sort of global function. In Unity for instance you could write a function, that would trigger a function in another script, and i’ve done this in other software too. This is a straight forward way of working, where you an access a global function, by simply appending the name of the function with the name of the script, and declaring the function as global if i remember right (it’s been awhile).

This use of events and dispatchers and binding and calling is so unclear, because it isn’t even clear where the bind, or where the call should be made, then what to do with that info when you get it.

I’m rambling now… complaining.

I know this will get easier when I go through all these different hurdles at least once, and I will definitely look at structs. That is exactly the kind of hint in the right direction that I need.

-finn

No problem! Glad to be of help. This community is honestly the best. Everyone is incredibly helpful here & awesome! So I try my best to pay it forward like everyone else.

Feel free to PM me if you ever get stuck on something and want a pair of second eyes, or just some advice on some theory crafting. I’m in love with UE4 and blueprinting, so I love talking “shop” so to speak haha.

It will get easier, key thing is to not get down on yourself about not understanding something right away, and making sure you just keep at it & don’t be afraid to take outside the box approaches. Practice makes “perfect”.