Question

I am writing a program in C#. The program controls a physical filter wheel which has interchangable wheels A through H. Each wheel can hold 8 filters. I want the user to be able to store friendly names for each filter in each wheel (64 total). The device and program are capable of identifying the wheel ID(A-H) and filter position (1-8) so what is the best way to store these 64 names and be able to reference them by the ID and POS. I could create a user setting for each one but there are two problems with that: 1) The names would not be the same for every user that logs onto the machine(i think), and 2) in order to access the specific names programmatically I have to use a HUGE case statement. Or is there a way to access settings by the name? like this..?

char WheelID = 'A';
int FilterPos = 4;
NewName = "FriendlyName";

string SettingIWant = WheelID.ToString() + FilterPos.ToString();

Properties.Settings[SettingIWant].Text = NewName;

Answer 1

Ok, I was just dumb and overlooked this way accessing the settings…

string SettingToChange = WheelID.ToString() + Position.ToString();
            Settings1.Default[SettingToChange] = NewName;
            Settings1.Default.Save();

It works just fine. The only issue is the stored values won’t be the same for every user but they will just have to deal with that!