DeferredRegistries vs Registry Event Questions

[Daniel Rollins]

Hi,

I've been hearing a lot about Deferred Registries recently. Some people seem to say this is the new/better way to register everything and to change everything over to the new way. Other people seem to indicate that it is useful for some things and not others. Some people have mentioned certain things not working with deferred registries. Rather than go off of hearsay and people who probably don't know much about the subject, I'd like to hear from you all the truth about this. Is Deferred registries the new way, replacing the old? Should I be changing all my Registry Events to deferred registries? Or is this just a tool for certain use cases, and if so, what cases? Is there a doc somewhere about this? I did try looking for one but haven't found anything answering my questions. Thanks

[[NoOneButNo]]

They are just the same. Use whichever you want you find comfortable with.

[TheGreyGhost]

Howdy

At the moment, I think it's largely a matter of personal preference.

 

Personally I don't like deferred registries because I hate the "magic pokery" of the Annotations methods, I prefer a more imperative style because it's much easier to find references to objects using the IDE that way.  

 

But they both work fine, with the possible exception of some of the DedicatedServer vs ClientOnly events (old-style proxy) which are much easier to use in the imperative style.  I wouldn't bother to change if/until the Forge masters remove the imperative style entirely.

 

-TGG

 

 

[DaemonUmbra]

Deferred Registers are there to placate people who felt they needed to statically initialize crap.

They are just a wrapper around the Registry Event system.