How do check which enum value was selected?

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1

I have this enum in one script:

	public enum TypeOfRotation
		{
					SingleRotation,
					LoopedRotation,
		}
		public TypeOfRotation RotationType;

And then in another script I want set the value of elementNameProperty (a string) to be whatever was selected in the enum (SingleRotation or LoopedRotation). The following code doesn’t work and I don’t quite know how to achieve this.

RotationTimeline.elementNameProperty = RotationTimeline.GetItem(0).FindPropertyRelative("TypeOfRotation").enumNames;
2

try
RotationType.ToString();

3

Hi @alexanderameye, If I understand you correctly then you are looking for something like this

public static T ParseEnum<T>(string value)
{
    return (T) System.Enum.Parse(typeof(T), value, true);
}

public override void OnInspectorGUI()
{
    SerializedProperty property = RotationTimeline.serializedProperty.GetArrayElementAtIndex(0).FindPropertyRelative("RotationType");
    Rotations.RotationsChild.TypeOfRotation rotationType = ParseEnum<Rotations.RotationsChild.TypeOfRotation>(property.stringValue);
    
    if (rotationType == Rotations.RotationsChild.TypeOfRotation.SingleRotation)
    {
    }

    //Instead of checking the value of 'SingleRotation' here, I want it to check what element of the RotationType enum was selected
    // RotationTimeline.elementNameProperty = RotationTimeline.GetItem(0).FindPropertyRelative("SingleRotation").stringValue;

    serializedObject.Update();
    RotationTimeline.DoLayoutList();
    serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
}

Lines were getting too long to read, I added the function ParseEnum<>() which returns an enum value from a string. I also broke everything down into multiple lines and added the if comparison statement.

I do mot know what Malee and Malee.Editor are as I did not have the associated scripts, so for testing purposes I had to comment out the uses statements and any code associated. I also had to add the uses statement

using UnityEditorInternal;

to use ReorderableList.