How to implement instance numbering?
- by Joan Venge
I don't know if the title is clear but basically I am trying to implement something like this:
public class Effect
{
public int InternalId ...
public void ResetName() ...
}
When ResetName is called, this will reset the name of the object to:
"Effect " + someIndex;
So if I have 5 instances of Effect, they will be renamed to:
"Effect 1"
"Effect 2"
"Effect 3"
...
So I have another method (ResetNames) in another manager/container type that calls ResetName for each instance. And right now I have to pass an integer to ResetName while keeping a counter myself inside ResetNames. But this feels not as clean and this prevents me from calling ResetName myself outside the manager class, which is valid.
How to do this better/cleaner?
As for the InternalId, it's just some id that stores the creation order for everything. So I can't just rely on these, because the numbers are large, like 32000, etc.
EDIT: Container ResetNames code:
int count = 1;
var effects = this.Effects.OrderBy ( n => n.InternalId );
foreach ( Effect effect in effects )
{
effect.ResetName ( count );
++count;
}
