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Autoloading Attribute

See original GitHub issue

Description

An attribute on classes preventing or enabling them to autoload

What does this proposal attempt to solve or improve?

Attributes will be less code and cleaner code rather than overriding a method and returning.

Which (other) solutions should be considered?

N/A

Examples

//This item will not autoload
[Autoload(false)]
public class CoolItem : ModItem { }

Notes

Could be paired with the #848 pull request

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Chicken-Bonescommented, Jun 6, 2020

I need to look into it more, but the current system doesn’t work well with Items that want to have custom constructors, because you have to leave a default one just to allow tML to know you don’t want it autoloaded

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Chicken-Bonescommented, May 31, 2020

Worth discussing, there’s room for improvement in autoloading, and having it work well with constructors

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