Class WorkItemProcessor Extends IWorkItemContext

void AddWorkItem (

AstarWorkItem

item

)

Add a work item to be processed when pathfinding is paused.

void EnsureValidFloodFill ()

If a WorkItem needs to have a valid area information during execution, call this method to ensure there are no pending flood fills.

bool ProcessWorkItemsForScan (

bool

force

)

Process graph updating work items.

Process all queued work items, e.g graph updates and the likes.

bool ProcessWorkItemsForUpdate (

bool

force

)

Process graph updating work items.

Process all queued work items, e.g graph updates and the likes.

This method also calls GraphModifier.TriggerEvent(PostUpdate) if any graphs were dirtied. It also calls EnsureValidFloodFill after the work items are done

WorkItemProcessor (

AstarPath

astar

)

bool anyQueued

True if any work items are queued right now.

bool workItemsInProgress

True while a batch of work items are being processed.

Set to true when a work item is started to be processed, reset to false when all work items are complete.

Work item updates are often spread out over several frames, this flag will be true during the whole time the updates are in progress.

bool workItemsInProgressRightNow

Used to prevent waiting for work items to complete inside other work items as that will cause the program to hang.

System.Action OnGraphsUpdated

bool anyGraphsDirty = true

AstarPath astar

void IWorkItemContext. PreUpdate ()

Call to send a GraphModifier.EventType.PreUpdate event to all graph modifiers.

The difference between this and GraphModifier.TriggerEvent(GraphModifier.EventType.PreUpdate) is that using this method ensures that multiple PreUpdate events will not be issued during a single update.

Once an event has been sent no more events will be sent until all work items are complete and a PostUpdate or PostScan event is sent.

When scanning a graph PreUpdate events are never sent. However a PreScan event is always sent before a scan begins.

bool preUpdateEventSent = false

bool ProcessWorkItems (

bool

force

)

void IWorkItemContext. SetGraphDirty (

NavGraph

graph

)

Trigger a graph modification event.

This will cause a #Pathfinding.GraphModifier.PostUpdate event to be issued after all graph updates have finished. Some scripts listen for this event. For example off-mesh links listen to it and will recalculate which nodes they are connected to when it it sent. If a graph is dirtied multiple times, or even if multiple graphs are dirtied, the event will only be sent once.

IndexedQueue<AstarWorkItem> workItems = new IndexedQueue<AstarWorkItem>()

void IWorkItemContext. QueueFloodFill ()

Call during work items to queue a flood fill.

An instant flood fill can be done via FloodFill() but this method can be used to batch several updates into one to increase performance. WorkItems which require a valid Flood Fill in their execution can call EnsureValidFloodFill to ensure that a flood fill is done if any earlier work items queued one.

Once a flood fill is queued it will be done after all WorkItems have been executed.