Resolved adding entries to a nested list?

I've created a little script which contains a few strings.

Code (CSharp):

1. [System.Serializable]
2. public class TaskData
3. {
4.     public string description;
5.     public string date;
6. }

and in another script I added this line:

    public List<TaskData> tasks = new List<TaskData>();

Which allows me to do this:


The problem: I like to add those elements via script, whenever I press a button ingame.... and somehow, I don't really know how.

I tried this: --but I get out of range errors

Code (CSharp):

1.     public void AddText() //triggered via button press
2.     {
3.        ID++;
4.        tasks.Add(tasks[ID]);
5.  
6.        tasks[tasks[ID].description = inputField.text;
7.        tasks[tasks[ID].description = date.ToString();
8.     }
9.  

 

The code as posted here wouldn't compile, so it wouldn't have a chance to give you an out of range error. Lines 6 and 7 have nonsense brackets. I'll assume those lines are a newer test/addition or a mistake copying into the forums, and focus on line 4 where you would actually get that error.

Imagine yourself as the computer coming across line 4 here. Before it can call tasks.Add, it needs to resolve the parameters so it knows what to send to tasks.Add. So that means it will attempt to retrieve tasks[ID], when you have just added to ID and made it 1 larger than the list's current size - that is, out of range.

The way to do this is to create a new TaskData object and then add that item to the list. You probably don't need the ID variable at all.

Code (csharp):

1. var newlyCreatedTask = new TaskData();
2. newlyCreatedTask.description = inputField.text;
3. tasks.Add(newlyCreatedTask);

 

@StarManta thanks a bunch, was simpler as thought and yea, I copy/pasted my script but I had some layout issues, so my tired self wrote it a bit messy & wrong.