G. Creating Your Own Scriptable Objects
Why Create Your Own Objects?
Several chapters have been devoted to discussing just a few of the scriptable objects provided with Windows. In this appendix, I show you how to create objects of your own.
Why would you want to do this? Well, remember what objects are about: They do a particular job while hiding the details of how the job is actually accomplished. Using this “divide-and-conquer” approach has three advantages:
• Faster development and debugging
• Simplification of the scripts and programs using objects
• Code reusability
Let’s look at these advantages one by one. First, when creating a new object, your immediate task is to make sure that the object does what it is supposed to do and that its ...
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