Hello, I am currently developing a level editor, and I am having some problems.

Firstly, I want to create different game objects to use in my level editor and, assign them arbitrary variables loaded from a file. I tried using a void* for this.

However, the variable that was of type int, I tried to assign to the void* did not seem to work, I tried looking up online on how to add a new int to a void*, but found no results :(

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    class ObjectVariable
    {
        public ObjectVariable(uint a, string b, string c, string d)
        {
            variableType = a;
            variableName = b;

            switch (a)
            {
                //Can't do this :(.
                case 0: variableValue = new int(System.Convert.ToInt32(c));
                    break;
            }
            variableDescription = c;
        }
        public uint variableType;
        public string variableName;
        public void* variableValue;
        public string variableDescription;
    }
}

So, How do I assign a new int to a void*?

Another option would be to make your ObjectVariable class generic

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    class ObjectVariable<TValue>
    {
        public ObjectVariable(string name, string description, TValue value)
        {
            Name = name;
            Value = value;
            Description = description;
        }
    
       // public uint variableType; not needed anymore
        public string Name {get;set;} // don't smurf name!
        public TValue Value {get;set;}
        public string Description {get;set;}
    }
}

As a general rule, you shouldn't see a '*' in C# code unless you're

• multiplying numbers
• using unsafe (i.e. you really know what you're doing)

Alright, thank you for the answers everyone :3

I've decided to use the Object variable type with variable classes. Thank you!