IMonoBehaviour

Interface mirroring UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour. Extends IBehaviour with coroutine management, time-delayed invocation, lifecycle state flags, and edit-mode execution. This is the most derived interface in the scene-object branch and is the direct parent of IParagonBehaviour.

Definition

Namespace: Paragon Assembly: Paragon.dll

public interface IMonoBehaviour : IBehaviour

Extends: IBehaviour

Remarks

IMonoBehaviour captures the MonoBehaviour-specific API surface that goes beyond basic component and behaviour functionality:

1. Lifecycle flags — didStart and didAwake expose whether Unity has already called Start() and Awake() on this instance. Useful for initialization ordering.

2. Coroutines — Full coroutine API (StartCoroutine, StopCoroutine, StopAllCoroutines) for frame-spread work.

3. Invocation — Time-delayed method calls (Invoke, InvokeRepeating, CancelInvoke, IsInvoking).

4. Edit-mode execution — runInEditMode toggles whether the MonoBehaviour receives lifecycle callbacks in the Editor outside of Play Mode.

This interface is the bridge between Unity's type system and Paragon's IParagonBehaviour, which extends it with subsystem support and debug registration.

Properties

didStart

Returns true after Unity has called Start() on this MonoBehaviour.

bool didStart { get; }

didAwake

Returns true after Unity has called Awake() on this MonoBehaviour.

bool didAwake { get; }

runInEditMode

Gets or sets whether this MonoBehaviour receives lifecycle callbacks (Awake, Start, Update, etc.) in the Editor outside of Play Mode.

bool runInEditMode { get; set; }

Methods

Coroutine Management

Coroutine StartCoroutine(IEnumerator routine)
Coroutine StartCoroutine(string methodName)
Coroutine StartCoroutine(string methodName, object value)
void StopCoroutine(IEnumerator routine)
void StopCoroutine(Coroutine routine)
void StopCoroutine(string methodName)
void StopAllCoroutines()

Invocation

void Invoke(string methodName, float time)
void InvokeRepeating(string methodName, float time, float repeatRate)
void CancelInvoke()
void CancelInvoke(string methodName)
bool IsInvoking()
bool IsInvoking(string methodName)

Parameter	Type	Description
methodName	string	Name of the method to invoke (reflection-based)
time	float	Delay in seconds before first invocation
repeatRate	float	Interval in seconds between repeated invocations

Implementation Requirements

You do not need to implement this interface explicitly. Any class deriving from UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour (including ParagonBehaviour and all its subclasses) already has all these members.

Common Pitfalls

didStart / didAwake are Odin properties These properties (didStart, didAwake) are provided by Odin Inspector's SerializedMonoBehaviour, not Unity's base MonoBehaviour. They are available because ParagonBehaviour extends SerializedMonoBehaviour. Standard MonoBehaviour subclasses would not have these.

See Also

• IBehaviour — parent interface

• IParagonBehaviour — extends this with subsystem and debug support

• ParagonBehaviour — primary implementation

• Unity Interfaces — hierarchy overview