Item Database / Dictionary

Questions & Answers
1

So basically,what I’m trying to accomplish is create a dictionary and populate it so i can access the items to generate them.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ItemClass : MonoBehaviour {

	public string name;
	public string description;
	public int id;
	public int uses;
	public tk2dSpriteAnimator animations;
	
	public ItemClass(string name,string description,int id,int uses,tk2dSpriteAnimator animations)
	{
		
		this.name = name;
		this.description = description;
		this.id = id;
		this.uses = uses;
		this.animations =animations;
			
	}
}

public class ItemsDatabase : MonoBehaviour {
	
	public Dictionary <string, ItemClass> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, ItemClass>();
 
	public ItemClass metal = new ItemClass("Metal","Muy Duro,Brilla",0,1,null);
	dictionary.Add(metal.name,metal);
	
	
}

the dictionary.Add(metal.name,metal); line fails,any insight?,thanks in advance.

2

Looking at the code posted, it looks like the dictionary.Add(metal.name,metal); line is inside the class definition, not inside a function. You can’t run code inside a class definition, only define functions and member variables (in c# atleast, I think js is different). It doesn’t look like theres anything wrong with the rest of the code, so the following should work:

public class ItemsDatabase : MonoBehaviour {
 
public Dictionary <string, ItemClass> dictionary = new Dictionary<string, ItemClass>();
 
public ItemClass metal = new ItemClass("Metal","Muy Duro,Brilla",0,1,null);

public void Start()
   {
      dictionary.Add(metal.name,metal);
   }
 
}

You may or may not also want the dictionary and metal initialisations in the Start() function, but they will work equally well outside a function definition.