Enum is thought to be a float?

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I keep running into this issue with Mono that my Enum is the wrong type and is expected to be a float?

I’m getting error CS1061- Type ‘float’ does not contain a definition for ‘smooth’… blah blah…

I get this statement if I try to use my enum in a switch statement and I haven’t a clue why. My other switch statement works fine but this one does not…

I’ve set up my enum like so outside my class.

public enum hoverSpeed {smooth, eightBit, appear}

I get a public reference in my class.

public hoverSpeed floatSpeed;

I then call this function that contains the switch statement →
speedType();

Here is the function.

public void speedType()
		{
			switch(floatSpeed)
			{
				case hoverSpeed.smooth:

					CompareTime.Value = 0.1f;

					break;
				case hoverSpeed.eightBit:

					CompareTime.Value = 0.5f;

					break;
				case hoverSpeed.appear:

					CompareTime.Value = 5f;

					break;
				default:

					CompareTime.Value = 0.1f;

					break;
			}
		}

and then I get the type error…

The error is gone if I use the global settings:

case global::hoverSpeed.smooth

but I want to know what I did wrong. And why I can’t use this enum like my other enum in my script? I’ve used multiple enums in a script before, the enums don’t share any similar names or variables. Why am I getting a type issue?

2

Either move the hoverSpeed enum into the class or do something like

using hoverSpeed = global::hoverSpeed;

at the top. Either of those should fix your problem, but I’m not entirely sure why you’d need to do that.

3

I’m not sure if it is better to delete my question or post my own answer but I figured out that the enum and a variable in the script were named the same thing so that caused this issue.