Enumerations in blocks!

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Have you every wanted enums in blocks? To be able to save the state of your player or game, but as a number? Introducing enum-blocks!

blocks it adds:

  • setEnumVar / setEnumVarStatement - sets/adds a key to an enum, with an optional number (details to last+1).
  • getEnumVar - gets the number assigned to a key in an enum.
  • enumVar - same as getEnumVar, but if the key doesn’t exist, it will create it for you.
  • enumStr - gets the name of a key, which normal enums do not have.

test projects (same thing but different code, the first uses set/getEnumVar while the second uses enumVar):

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Such a cool extension! Now I don’t have to see so many “magic numbers” in my friends enemy/ai state! I’m going to tell him about this extension as soon as I can! :rofl:

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This would be heavenly if it weren’t for richards state extension

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this is smart

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[Extension] Enums in blocks! this was already made

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I thought so but that one technically only contained one enum if that makes sense. This one allows multiple like PlayerAnims, EnemyAnims, GameState, etc.

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what is his state extension?

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Here:

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Hey @VoxelMaster64 , could you make it so that basically you could have arrays in enums. Like a
enum that can have arrays in it?

Example:

enum MyGroup {
    Animals,
    Fruits,
    Tools
}

EnumArray.set(MyGroup.Animals, ["cat", "dog", "bird"])
EnumArray.set(MyGroup.Fruits, ["apple", "banana", "grape"])
EnumArray.set(MyGroup.Tools, ["hammer", "saw", "wrench"])

Block ideas:

  • set group Animals to array […]
  • get value # from group Fruits
  • length of group Tools
  • group Fruits contains “banana”

Also, could you make blocks that make it so that you can have like a “nested enum”; enums inside of enums?

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I was thinking of doing like a set(name: string, data: any) but makecode hates any. any[] is completely safe though. I don’t know how to fix it.

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