Edit Enum
Anyone got an Idea how I could edit (add something to) an Enum? Like Content Warnung saves its ShopCategories in one, but I wanna add a new one... Everything tells me its not possible but yeah would be sad lol
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i don't understand the question. to add something to an enum, you... just add a new line?
yeah sry, I dont have acces to that enum, bc I am modding a game
Forgot to mention that
you can't
if the game intends to let you mod a list of selections they need to design the code differently
Someone told me there is a way, but i dont remember anymore...
Enum types are basically just aliases for int types so you can just cast an int that is not defined in the enum
But I dont have access to that enum
asdf is saying you can assign an "invalid" value to an enum and it will just take it, but it won't have a name associated with the value
hm
eg.
Also wherever this enum is used you’d probably want a way to account for this new enum via some logic of some sort
Passing the illegal value to code you don't control will likely invalidate its assumptions on that variable though, possibly causing unexpected behavior or exceptions. So be aware of that.
You could also define your own enum that is basically a clone of the one you want to extend; add all the members you want. Then you define an extension method for converting your extended version to the original. Here you'd have to handle the question of how to convert your new members to the original enum type
For example, imagine the game code could use a variable of the enum type for indexing into an array; if you chose a larger value than allowed, that could throw an
IndexOutOfRangeException.