#find button in list based on selected button

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remote fern
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So now we dont have to fill up that channel

radiant ether
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That's clever, it's been so much time since these were disabled, I don't remember to use them lmao

remote fern
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Honestly I hated the addition of threads, but only because I was in servers who didn't need them at all

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but for stuff like this it's good

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Anyways

radiant ether
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So, any other errors? You should have one I think

remote fern
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None

radiant ether
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So you edited EmployeeButtonClicked so it takes a param of type Button? Good

remote fern
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So an employee object is a prefab, generated like:
Employee1:
|--- Name (Text)
|--- Design (Sprite)
|--- B_SelectEmployee (Button)

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the B_SelectEmployee is what we're dealing with

radiant ether
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Yup that's what I deduced from the original code you posted

remote fern
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all employees are gathered into a list called NotHired

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all buttons are gathered into a list called EmployeeButtons

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which are generated right after another, so they're 1 - 1

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so if I can get the index of the selected button in employeebuttons, I'll get the one in NotHired too

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you probably already figured that out, but that's the goal

radiant ether
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Okay, now show the EmployeeButtonClicked handler method, the magic will happen there

remote fern
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public void EmployeeButtonClicked(Button button)
    {

    }```
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nothing atm

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I have a selectedEmployee int which will be the returned index

radiant ether
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Okay good. So you've got the button that raised the event as a parameter, the button list as a class field, and the IndexOf method. You're all set

remote fern
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RIght

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Actually

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Each button has a selected attribute right

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we could do
for i = 0; i < EmployeeButtons.Count' i++
if EmployeeButtons[i].isSelected
return i

radiant ether
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You don't need it. You have a reference to the clicked button (your parameter), and the button list.
Debug.Log(EmployeeButtons.IndexOf(button)); should print out the index of the sender in the console.

remote fern
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Oh

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Let's check that

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Yep that did it

radiant ether
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It's a shame that the overall Unity event system doesn't include that "sender pattern", and you have to do it yourself

remote fern
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So then I would do
selectedEmployee = EmployeeButtons.IndexOf(button)

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Yeah

radiant ether
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Seems right to me

remote fern
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This is a very UI-based game

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given it's primarily about management

radiant ether
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Okay, so if there is no more questions nor anything else to discuss, I'll let you archive this thread to clean up