using an int to control events

Question

Let me explain -- I'm just looking for a way that I can link a number to a set of methods. I want to randomly generate a "difficulty" int, and pick out an event based on the number I get. IE, if I get an int of 3 I want that to point to a specific event. What's the best way to accomplish this? I was thinking of story the events in lists, but methods can't be in lists. I thought about making the methods into delegates and putting those in lists but that seems unnecessarily complicated. Also, in the future I think I'd want to put multiple events at each level which would sort of make putting them into array or lists difficult.

Answer 1

Provided all the events have the same signature:

delegate return_type Event(parameter_list);
Event[] events = { new Event(Event1),
                   new Event(Event2),
                   //.....
                   new Event(EventN) };

//in your caller method
events[random_int](parameters);

Delegates are the fastest and easiest method to accomplish what you want. And if you add more events, just add them to the array. It shouldn't be too difficult ;)

Answer 2

So you want to generate a random integer, and use the number generated to choose between a set of events. Seems like the best thing you could use would be switch case?

Switch :

int caseSwitch = X; //your random generated integer

switch (caseSwitch)
{
    case 1:       //if it's equal to 1 then
        Console.WriteLine("Case 1");
        break;
    case 2:         //if it's equal to 2 then
        Console.WriteLine("Case 2");
        break;
}

Is this what you're looking for?