Is there a way to disable a device without making a custom function?

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I have two devices. One runs my game’s casual logic, the other runs the ranked logic. I only want one to be enabled at each time.

I have a third device that I want to use to disable one and switch on the other. Is there any default built-in way to fully disable a device and disconnect its events/loops/etc.? Effectively reverting it back to a “pre-enable on start” state.

As far as I can find, the only way is via making a custom Disable() and doing all of the above manually, but doing that feels unnecessarily complex - surely there must be a better way?

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Being able to clone/duplicate a device with its references intact could also work for this, but this doesn’t appear to be possible either. :sob:

3

My mind now went to “maybe I can have a few duplicates made in advance and destroy the old ones as-needed”; however, destroying a custom device without a custom function is also not possible. sigh

4

I was able to accomplish the original goal, after much trial and error, via leveraging coroutines.

Related code snippet to make coroutines easier to work with:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/snippets/4dl/fortnite-cancelable-spawned-coroutines

Code Excerpt (in case it helps future peoples):

GamemodeManager := class(creative_device):
 
    # Instances
    @editable CasualLogic : CasualLogicManager = CasualLogicManager{}
    @editable RankedLogic : RankedLogicManager = RankedLogicManager{}
    
    # Variables
    var IsCasualMode : logic = true
    var CurrentRoutine : ?routine = false

    # Functions
    RunCurrentMode():void=
        # Cancel any currently-ongoing routines
        if(CurrentRoutineTemp := CurrentRoutine?):
            Print("Cancelled current mode")
            CurrentRoutineTemp.Cancel()
            # add additional cleanup logic here
   
        # Start either casual or ranked mode
        if(IsCasualMode = true):
            Print("Starting casual mode")
            CurrentRoutineTemp := SpawnRoutine(CasualLogic.StartGame)
            set CurrentRoutine = option{CurrentRoutineTemp}
        else:
            Print("Starting ranked mode")
            CurrentRoutineTemp := SpawnRoutine(RankedLogic.StartGame)
            set CurrentRoutine = option{CurrentRoutineTemp}

All I had to do to my original devices was change the OnBegin to be a custom method StartGame. Much cleaner than having to splice them up.