Question

I have a class GameServices which contains an instance of the class GameStates.
The class GameStates has a public enum called GameState and a static var named CurrentGameState.

My problems is, I can access CurrentGameState from the GameStates class, but not the GameState enum it self, while it is public.

The GameServices Class

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using SpaceGame.UI;
using SpaceGame.Content;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;

namespace SpaceGame.Game
{
    public class GameServices
    {
        public static ContentLoader ContentLoaderService;
        public static UIHandler UIHandlerService;
        public static GameStates GameStatesService;

        public static void Initialize(ContentManager contentManager, GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice)
        {
             ContentLoaderService = new ContentLoader(contentManager);
             UIHandlerService = new UIHandler(graphicsDevice);
             GameStatesService = new GameStates();
        }
    }
}

The GameStates Class

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace SpaceGame.Game
{
    public class GameStates
    {
        public GameState CurrentGameState { get; set; }
        public enum GameState
        {
            Settings,
            Splash,
            SpaceShipyard
        }

        public GameStates()
        {
            CurrentGameState = GameState.Splash;
        }
    }
}

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in Advance,
Mark

Answer 1

IF you’re trying to access it from the same namespace, you’ll have to do something like

GameStates.GameState state = GameStates.GameState.Settings

If you’re doing that, but it’s not working than I can’t help you at this point.

Here’s a sample that i did. It compiles for me.

namespace ConsoleApplication5
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            A.AEnum a = A.AEnum.a;

        }
    }

    public class A
    {
        public enum AEnum
        {
            a,b
        }
    }
}