State machine, what to use instead of enum to store multiple states eg ( 0% to 100% for a vehicle's drive base height)

Question

enum RideHeight_State 
    {
        rideHeight = 100
    }

I'm trying to use rideHeight variable as if it is an int by calling:

RideHeight_State.rideHeight -= 10; // Decrement rideHeight State by 10 

inside a private void function later on...

Any thoughts on where I'm going wrong?

Thank You

Answer 1

It sounds like you may need to do this:

enum RideHeight_State
{
    rideHeight,
}

private Dictionary<RideHeight_State, int> _state = new Dictionary<RideHeight_State, int>()
{
    { RideHeight_State.rideHeight, 100 },
};

Then this code might work more like you expect:

_state[RideHeight_State.rideHeight] -= 10;

Console.WriteLine(_state[RideHeight_State.rideHeight]);

That outputs 90.

Your naming convention for your enum is not very clear though. I wasn't sure what to suggest there.