Array of named booleans

Questions & Answers
1

If I create a boolean array:

public bool[] boolArray;

Then the inspector shows me boolean tick-boxes named “Element 0, Element 1” etc. which isn’t really helpful… how can I change it so that each element in the array has an actual name?

3

It sounds like you might need a Dictionary instead. A Dictionary is a datastructure that allows you to link a key to the values that go into the structure. A typical use case is a phonebook, where you link the name of a person (the key is then a string) to his/her phone-number (the value is then an integer).

Try something like this:

    Dictionary<string, Boolean> NamedBooleans = new Dictionary<string, bool>();

    NamedBooleans.Add("This is the name of the first boolean", false);
    NamedBooleans.Add("This is the name of the second boolean", true);

Then, later on, you can look up the booleans like this, for example:

    if (NamedBooleans["This is the name of the first boolean"])
    {
        // Yada yada
    }
2

As far as I am aware you can’t assign a name to a boolean, there may be a way of serializing the boolean with a
name but I’m not sure.

#1) use a Hashtable to store the booleans:

var hashtable = {};

function Start(){
    hashtable["My boolean"] = true;
    hashtable["Another boolean"] = false;
}

then you can refer to them now like so…

if(hashtable["My boolean"]){
      //do stuff
}

#2) make class object for a named boolean:

var array : NamedBoolean[];

class NamedBoolean {
    var name : string;
    var bool : boolean;
}

with a class object they will show in the inspector as the “name” variable you assign.

refer to them like so:

if(array*.bool){*

//do stuff
}
#3) similar to a hashtable you could use a generic list
var myList = new List.();
then you can refer to them now like so…
if(myList[“My boolean”]){
//do stuff
}