Accessing a Class's Variables from within a Dictionary Element

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I’m just learning how to use Dictionaries and am trying to make a catalogue of Recovery Items for my game. I’ve created a Recovery Item Class (with variables such as name, heal value, etc.) and am populating a Recovery Items Dictionary using the item names (strings) as the Key type and the Recovery Item (class) as the Value type, as shown below…

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class itemManager : MonoBehaviour {

   public class RecItem {
      public string name;          // Name of recovery item
      private int healVal;          // Value item recovers health by
      private bool oneOrAll;          // T=Heals one player | F=Heals all players

      public RecItem (string name, int healVal, bool oneOrAll) {
         this.name = name;
         this.healVal = healVal;
         this.oneOrAll= oneOrAll;
      }
   }
   public Dictionary<string, RecItem> recItems;

   void Start () {
      recItems = new Dictionary<string, RecItem>();
      recItems.Add ("Potion", new RecItem("Potion", 100, true));
      recItems.Add ("Omni-Potion", new RecItem("Omni-Potion", 100, false));
      recItems.Add ("Elixer", new RecItem("Elixer", 500, true));
      recItems.Add ("Omni-Elixer", new RecItem("Omni-Elixer", 500, false));
   }
}

What I’m trying to figure out now is how to access the variables of the RecItems Class within each of the Dictionary’s elements. I know that I can access a Dictionary’s Element’s value using the Key, like recItems["Potion"]; But what I need is something along the lines of recItems["Potion"].healVal; // Should return 100 or recItems["Omni-Potion"].oneOrAll //Should return false to obtain the values of the variables within the element’s RecItems class. Hopefully that made sense -laugh- Thank you in advance :slight_smile:

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‘healVal’ and ‘oneOrAll’ are private to the class. Make them public, like you have for ‘name’.