Coroutines Cannot be Stopped Outside Initiating class

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Can coroutines only be stopped inside the script that started them? Even if they are both attached to the same game object?

For example, attach both of these scripts to the same GO and the code below will loop endlessly:

 public class RunCoroutine : MonoBehaviour {
 
     void Start()
     {
         StartCoroutine("Test");
     }

     IEnumerator Test()
     {
         int i=0;
         while (true)
         {
             i++;
             print("Running loop " + i);
             yield return null;
         }
     }
 }


 public class EndCoroutine : MonoBehaviour {
 
     void Update()
     {
         if (Time.time > 3f)
         {
             StopAllCoroutines();
         }
     }
 }

But moving StopAllCoroutines into the first script will work as expected.

 public class RunCoroutine : MonoBehaviour {
 
     void Start()
     {
         StartCoroutine("Test");
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
         if (Time.time > 3f)
         {
             StopAllCoroutines();
         }
     }
 
     IEnumerator Test()
     {
         int i=0;
         while (true)
         {
             i++;
             print("Running loop " + i);
             yield return null;
         }
     }
 }

Answer 1

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Answer by slavo · Sep 05, 2014 at 03:31 PM

Corutine run on Monobehaviour instance, so it can be stoped only by same instance that start it.

You can call function that tell class to stop corutine.

         public class RunCoroutine : MonoBehaviour {
             
             void Start()
             {
                 StartCoroutine("Test");
             }
             
             IEnumerator Test()
             {
                 int i=0;
                 while (true)
                 {
                     i++;
                     print("Running loop " + i);
                     yield return null;
                 }
             }
             
             public void StopCorutines()
             {
                 StopAllCoroutines();
             }
         }
         
         
         public class EndCoroutine : MonoBehaviour {
             
             public RunCoroutine script;
             
             void Update()
             {
                 if (Time.time > 3f)
                 {
                     script.StopCorutines();
                 }
             }
         }

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nathanielstevens · Sep 05, 2014 at 04:20 PM 0

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Yeah, that's what I ended up doing. Thanks for your reply!

scnoobi · Sep 06, 2014 at 09:12 PM 0

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you can also stop is with the string of the corutine but it needs to be started with a string.

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