Hashtable ordering makes no sense

Unity Engine
1

I understand that there is no built in way to sort a Hashtable, but even when I build my own sorting mechanism the sorting doesn’t stick.

Here are some example code snippets. With the following hashtable:

	// The job names and the number of jobs that must be completed to be available

	static var allJobs:Hashtable = {
		"Pesky": 1,
		"Awesome": 1,
		"Killtacular": 2,
		"Parachute": 3,
		"Dude!": 5
	};

I loop through and make buttons out of the hashtable:

	for (jobName in allJobs.Keys) {
		if (GUILayout.Button(jobName)) {
			Application.LoadLevel(jobName);
		}
	}

I get:

Pesky
Killtacular
Parachute
Dude!
Awesome

It doesn’t matter what order I have the hashtable in. So I guess I’ll just have to stick to arrays?

I need to have a sortable (or at least predictable) array of arrays like:

var test = {
    "one" : {"title":"onetitle", "description":"onedescription"},
    "two" : {"title":"twotitle", "description":"twodescription"}
}

Is there a good way to do this?

2

hashtables are no ordered set.
They are meant to be high performance associative sets.

Guess what you are looking for is more something like an Array / ArrayList

3

Aha! This Unity javascript takes a little getting used to but this appears to work just fine:

class Jobs extends System.Object {
   static var allJobs:Array = [
      {"name": "Pesky Bunnies", "reward": 100},
      {"name": "Awesome", "reward": 1000000}
   ];
	
   static function getAvailableJobs():Array {
      return allJobs;
   }
}

// Get the list of jobs
var jobs:Array = Jobs.getAvailableJobs();
Debug.Log(jobs[0]["name"]);
Debug.Log(jobs[1]["name"]);

// yields Pesky Bunnies, Awesome (as expected)