Accessing list of all conversation titles in a database

[joeykid6]

Hi Tony and all,

I'd like to provide an interface to developers that lets them start any conversation in the database from a dropdown list (or something similar). I'd prefer to pull all current conversation titles directly from the database dynamically, so I don't have to update when the data changes. I can't seem to find a method in the API that lets me do this. Any thoughts?

Best,
Joe

[Tony Li]

Hi Joe,

If you're defining a script variable, you can use the [ConversationPop] attribute:

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[ConversationPopup]
public string conversationTitle;

At runtime, read DialogueManager.masterDatabase.conversations:

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using PixelCrushers.DialogueSystem;
...
foreach (var conversation in DialogueManager.masterDatabase.conversations)
{
    Debug.Log(conversation.Title);
}

[joeykid6]

Excellent, Tony, thank you!

[Tony Li]

Glad to help!

[joeykid6]

Ok, so only one small oddity. I decided to use buttons, and the title and button event are offset by one. In other words, the button that has the text title for conversation 5 is playing conversation 6. They're being assigned in the foreach loop, so the conversation data should be identical. Here's the whole loop:

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        foreach (var conversation in DialogueManager.masterDatabase.conversations)
        {
            var button = Instantiate(buttonPrefab);
            var buttonLabel = buttonPrefab.transform.Find("Text");
            var buttonLabelText = buttonLabel.gameObject.GetComponent<Text>();
                                 
            button.onClick.AddListener(() => DialogueManager.StartConversation(conversation.Title));
            buttonLabelText.text = conversation.Title;

            button.transform.SetParent(transform);
        }

Any idea why there would be an offset?

[joeykid6]

Nevermind! I fixed it. Just a typo. I was calling the prefab instead of the instance to find the text label.

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var buttonLabel = buttonPrefab.transform.Find("Text");

should be

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var buttonLabel = button.transform.Find("Text");