Is it posible to use a single function to change any property plugged in to it?

Questions & Answers
1

So I have a small “shop” that allows the player to increase or decrease their workforce. I am trying to use a combination of buttons to enable the player to do so, but I don’t want to write multiple functions when one will suffice.

This is, essentially what I am trying to simplify:

public void AddToProperty1()
{
       player.properties.Property1++;
}

public void AddToProperty2()
{
       player.properties.Property2++;
}
// and so on...

Ideally, it would look something like…

public void AddToProperty(string property)
{
       player.properties.property++;
}

But this code doesn’t work, something is missing or this is not how I communicate to the computer what I am trying to do. Is it possible to simplify the function in this way?

2

You could add switch inside your method:

    int property1;
    int property2;

    public void AddToProperty(string property)
    {
        switch (property)
        {
            case "property1":
                property1++;
                    break;
            case "property2":
                property2++;
                break;
        }
    }
3

You could store your properties in an array and use an enum to ID each one, then pass an enum into the increment function like

enum PropertyEnum { PROP1, PROP2, PROP3};

List<int> properties;

public void AddToProperty(PropertyEnum propId)
{
  properties[(int)propId]++;
}
4

You could also overload ‘AddToProperty’ so whenever you call it, it does slightly different things based on parameters and return type. You could pass in a reference to your property, so you’d always be changing the one currently passed in.

public void AddToProperty(ref float _floatProperty)
{
     _floatProperty++;
}

public void AddToProperty(ref int _intProperty)
{
      _intProperty++;
}
//etc.

Haven’t tested this, so it might not work exactly how I imagine, but I do think it’s a viable idea.