Custom lists, or something else?

Adam Turner

I'm looking for the equivalent of an associative array that will allow me to store strings with textures. I'm new to C# so I can't seem to find a datum that will allow me to accomplish this.

Example:

Dictionary<string, Texture2D> textures = new Dictionary<string, Texture2D>();

Except dictionary doesn't accomplish this. There are so many list type classes that I'm finding them quite confusing to keep track of, but from what I think I've surmised, it doesn't seem like theres a list type out there that will do anything other than store two string values.
Ultimately, it would be great if all I had to do to access the list was use a syntax like:

textures["cooltexture"]

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Do I need to look in to createing my own list class?

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Adam Turner19y ago
Thanks for the help, it got me moving in the right direction.
Alan19y ago
The equivalent of the associative array in C# is in fact the Hashtable or, in .NET 2.0, the generic Dictionary class which you've identified :)

Moreover, the Item property of this class provides the functionality you're looking for as it is represented by an indexer in C#:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9tee9ht2.aspx

For example code like this should work fine:

Dictionary textures = new Dictionary();
textures.Add("cooltexture", t2dObject);
Texture2D coolT2d = textures["cooltexture"];