Question

So right now I have a class called “Clans” which list several different clans by name and their respective village.

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Clan Uchiha = new Clan("Uchiha", "Konoha");
    }

And this basically goes on for a couple of more clans. It’s defined with two strings, Clan and Village. This is a GUI application, so when I click a button I want it to pick a random “Clan” which will display the Clan and their Village. Mind you I’m a complete newbie when it comes to thinking of projects on my own. I know how to do a click event but I’m not really sure how I make it so the button being clicked outputs information into the Clan and Village text box.

Answer 1

I won’t be able to do this with the class Clan as I don’t have this defined. So, I’ll use List<string> instead if you don’t mind but at this point Clan must be a collection 🙂

We’ll use Random and List<string> to sort this out.

First, we must have some items in our collection List<string>. Let us create List<string> first using the following code

List<string> Clans = new List<string>();

Then, let’s add some items to Clans

Clans.Add("Uchiha,Konoha");
Clans.Add("Picrofo Groups,Egypt");
Clans.Add("Another Clan,Earth");
Clans.Add("A fourth Clan,Somewhere else");

Now, we we’ll need to output an item of these when the button is clicked knowing that there’s a splitter , that splits the first value from the second value in each item. For example. Uchiha which is the name of the clan and the first value is separated from Konoha which is the location of the clan and the second value by , which is the splitter. We’ll need to create the Random class as well. Let’s try this

Random Rand = new Random(); //Create a new Random class
int Index = Rand.Next(0, Clans.Count); //Pick up an item randomly where the minimum index is 0 and the maximum index represents the items count of Clans
string[] Categorizer = Clans[Index].Split(','); //Split the item number (Index) in Clans by ,
MessageBox.Show("Name:" + Categorizer[0] +" | Location: "+ Categorizer[1]); //Output the following

Finally, it would look like this in your form class

    List<string> Clans = new List<string>();
    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Clans.Add("Uchiha,Konoha");
        Clans.Add("Picrofo Groups,Egypt");
        Clans.Add("Another Clan,Earth");
        Clans.Add("A fourth Clan,Somewhere else");
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
          Random Rand = new Random();
          int Index = Rand.Next(0, Clans.Count);
          string[] Categorizer = Clans[Index].Split(',');
          MessageBox.Show("Name:" + Categorizer[0] +" | Location: "+ Categorizer[1]);
    }

Thanks,

I hope you find this helpful 🙂