Saving List<Enum> Saves the Enum Indexes?

[eruperu]

Hello,

I'm saving and loading an enum List with ES2 and everything is working so far. However, if I insert or remove entries in the enum data, ES2 would load the wrong values?

For example my old enum data is:

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enum Data { Munchkin, Caramel, Emily, Pippi, Bento }; 

And I have a saved List that contains "Pippi" and "Bento", which loads the values correctly when I use ES2.LoadList.

But, if I then insert a new enum value "Brownie" into the enum data to this:

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enum Data { Munchkin, Caramel, Brownie, Emily, Pippi, Bento };

It would load "Emily" and "Pippi" when I call ES2.LoadList. Is it because SaveList and LoadList uses the indexes instead of the actual values or?

As a test I shortened the enum data to:

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enum Data { Munchkin, Caramel };

And I would see the LoadList output "3" and "4" as values.

How can I make sure that it always outputs "Pippi" and "Bento" regardless whether I insert or remove new enum values? I'm using EasySave 2.8.5.
Hope this makes sense.

Thanks!

[Joel]

Hi there,

Unfortunately it's necessary to save enums by index. However, the easiest way to address this would be to manually assign indexes to your enums. For example:

enum Data { Munchkin=0, Caramel=1, Emily=2, Pippi=3, Bento=4 };

And then when you add a value:

enum Data { Munchkin=0, Caramel=1, Brownie=5, Emily=2, Pippi=3, Bento=4 };

All the best,
Joel

[eruperu]

Great! That helped And thanks for clearing that up.