One list containing gameobjects and strings?

Is it possible to make a list containing a mix of gameobjects (specifically sprites) and strings? Something likes this:

Code (CSharp):

1. List<string> questions;
2.  
3. questions = new list<string>() {
4. "text 1",
5. "text 2",
6. GameObject.Find("sprite1").GetComponent<Image>().sprite,
7. "text 3",
8. "text 4"
9. };

Thanks

 

yes, you want a dictionary, they are a lost faster than lists, so really recommend them.
try

Code (CSharp):

1. Dictionary <string,Image> myDictionary = new Dictionary <string,Image>()
2. {
3. {"text 1",yourImage1},
4. {"text 2",yourImage2},
5. {"text 3",yourImage3},
6. };

 

Depending on your use case, you could also do a list of instances of a class. Or even a dictionary with <string, class> can work.

 

Or, to answer the original question, you could use a list of System.Object (since all classes, including String, derive from that).

Not that you should do such a thing, most likely. But you could.

 

Ah, I think I misunderstood the question. I see now he was trying to create a list with a mix of stuff.
Yeah, there is stuff like arraylist, but as mentioned, they suffer the same issue as you generally don't want to use them due to the need to cast stuff as you don't really know what you are getting out of the list.

If you give us more info on what you are wanting to do, perhaps we could give you better solutions.

 

Thanks. So to get yourImage2, would I use:

Code (CSharp):

1. myDictionary[1][1]

?

 

No, dictionnaries are not two dimensional arrays. Dictionaries rather associate a key to a value, the type of each being defined during the creation of the dictionnary.

In the example that was given to you, the dictionnary associates string keys with Image values.
This means that in order to access yourImage1, you'd need to type :

Code (CSharp):

1. myDictionnary["text 1"]