Question

So, after this wonderful and probably impossible to understand title, here is my problem.
I have this Button object:

class Button
{
    public Texture2D Texture {get;set;}
    public string Name {get;set;}
    ...
}

I’m holding a list of all the buttons in a List<Button> buttons. At some point in the code, I need to return the Texture property from a Button. I can’t be sure of the value of it, so I can’t search the button from it’s Texture value. I need to search its name. I’m currently using a delegate:

SomeMethod(buttons.Find(delegate (Button btn) 
{
    return btn.Name = "Title";
}));

However, I can’t return the Texture property this way, unless I create a temporary Button object.

So, how would I return the Texture property, by searching it by its Name ?

Answer 1

You can use LINQ:

Texture2D theTexture = buttons
                        .Where(b => b.Name = "Title")
                        .Select(b => b.Texture)
                        .First();

If you want to handle “no matches”, you can use .FirstOrDefault(), which will cause it to return null if there is no matching Name.