Get Reference in Type Class?

Unity Engine
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1

I have a type “Task” and from there i need to be able to edit a variable “pointCount” in my gamemanager.
If you want to see my attempt at making this work here it is:

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

public class Manager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int taskCount;
    public float pointCount;
    public Task task;
    void Start()
    {
        task = new Task(5f);
    }
    public void UpdatePoints(float pointdiff)
    {
        pointCount += pointdiff;
    }
}
[System.Serializable]
public class Task
{
    float points;
    public Task(float ipoints)
    {
        this.points = ipoints;
        UpdatePoints(ipoints);
    }
}
2

I’m assuming it’s the “points” variable you want to edit outside of the Task object?

Either make it a public field…
public float points;
…Or a public auto-property:
public float Points { get; set; }

Edit, OP was updated with more info:

If “points” is a constant value, you could give it a get-only public property and just update the value of “pointCount” in your Manager script when you instantiate a new Task:

public class Task {
   private float points;

   public Task(float points) {
      this.points = points;
   }

   public float Points => points;
}

public class Manager : MonoBehaviour {
   public Task task;
   public float pointCount;

   void Start() {
      task = new Task(5f);
      pointCount += task.Points;
   }
}
3

You could use a custom eventhandler to do this.

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

public delegate void UpdatePointsEventHandler(float points);
 
public class Manager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int taskCount;
    public float pointCount;
    public Task task;
    void Start()
    {
        task = new Task(5f, UpdatePoints);
    }
    public void UpdatePoints(float pointdiff)
    {
        pointCount += pointdiff;
    }
}

[System.Serializable]
public class Task
{
    float points;
    public event UpdatePointsEventHandler onUpdatePoints;

    public Task(float ipoints, UpdatePointsEventHandler onUpdatePoints)
    {
        this.points = ipoints;

        this.onUpdatePoints += onUpdatePoints;

        if(onUpdatePoints != null)
            onUpdatePoints(ipoints);
    }
}
4

Thanks for this! i interpreted a tiny snippet from your code to suit my needs more easily by passing the manager reference through the constructor. GENIUS!
public Task(float ipoints, Manager imanager)
{
this.points = ipoints;
this.manager = imanager;
manager.UpdatePoints(ipoints);
}