C#•10mo ago

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

ero•3/13/25, 2:59 PM

i don't understand the question. to add something to an enum, you... just add a new line?

enum E
{
  A
}

// add something
enum E
{
  A,
  B
}

enum E
{
  A
}

// add something
enum E
{
  A,
  B
}

Emn4torOP•3/13/25, 3:00 PM

yeah sry, I dont have acces to that enum, bc I am modding a game

Eero i don't understand the question. to add something to an enum, you... just add a ...

Emn4torOP•3/13/25, 3:00 PM

Forgot to mention that

Jimmacle•3/13/25, 3:02 PM

you can't

Jimmacle•3/13/25, 3:03 PM

if the game intends to let you mod a list of selections they need to design the code differently

JJimmacle you can't

Emn4torOP•3/13/25, 3:03 PM

Someone told me there is a way, but i dont remember anymore...

asdf•3/13/25, 3:19 PM

Enum types are basically just aliases for int types so you can just cast an int that is not defined in the enum

Emn4torOP•3/13/25, 3:19 PM

But I dont have access to that enum

Jimmacle•3/13/25, 3:21 PM

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

Emn4torOP•3/13/25, 3:21 PM

arion•3/13/25, 4:00 PM

eg.

E example = (E)400;

E example = (E)400;

Harbour•3/14/25, 8:00 AM

Also wherever this enum is used you’d probably want a way to account for this new enum via some logic of some sort

SleepWellPupper•3/14/25, 10:51 AM

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.

SleepWellPupper•3/14/25, 10:53 AM

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

SSleepWellPupper Passing the illegal value to code you don't control will likely invalidate its a...

SleepWellPupper•3/14/25, 11:46 AM

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 IndexOutOfRangeExceptionIndexOutOfRangeException.

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