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Accessing Dynamically Named Variables (javascript)
So need to read some variables that are in a static class. The variables are just strings named Lock1 through Lock4. Their values are either locked or unlocked. I've been trying to do this without a bunch of if else statements in case more locks need to be added to the game. So what I want to do is to ask the global script for a variable with something like:
function GetLock(lockNum : int) : String
{
//return value of "Lock" + lockNum
}
I've tried a few keyworks like pathTo and nothing has worked so far.
You can't. Either change the variables to an array:
var Lock = [0,0,0,0];
(and note that arrays start at 0 not 1).
or use a switch to read them:
function GetLock(lockNum : int) : String
{
switch (lockNum) {
case 1: return Lock1;
case 2: return Lock2;
case 3: return Lock3;
case 4: return Lock4;
}
}
I would recommend using the array.
You can't do these typical javascript tricks in Unityscript - variable names cannot be dynamically created or modified. You must use an array if you want to access the variables by index.
