How to destroy an added component?

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1

For example Iā€™m grabbing a Drag Controls component that gets added by Drop Listener and want to remove it

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by user 103054507105067008

2

either this.destroy() on the component (or theComponent.destroy()) or GameObject.destroy(theComponent)

3

If its networked use GameObject.destroySynced(...)

4

I tried this, it reports that console.log but the drag component still works in the scene

        if(this.new != null)
        {
        //remove drag component
        if (this.new.getComponent(DragControls))
        {
            //@ts-ignore
            this.destroy(this.new.getComponent(DragControls));
            console.log("destroeyd");
        }
        }

by user 103054507105067008

5

Ok that sounds like a bug - Iā€™ll try in a minute

6

Any chance there is another DragControls component in the scene? When I destroy it here it stops working as expected

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(tried destroying before awake, in awake, in start and onEndDrag and those all worked as expected :thinking: )

8

Ill try with the droplistener

9

Oh hey looking at your code: you need to call this.new.getComponent(DragControls).destroy()

10

Currently you destroy whatever component is running this code

11

aha, Iā€™ll try that

by user 103054507105067008

12

That works

by user 103054507105067008