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How can i organize multiple animations? Need help to do a combination

i have a problem in Unity3d scripts.
I'm trying to make a sort of combination to open a box.
To open this box, i have to insert a combination of 3 buttons correctly.
This 3 buttons(That are simple GameObject, already placed in my scene) have already an animation, when my character collide with one of them, this one will fall down (same animation to other 2).
So, the combination that i want to insert is "the first correct button is "Button n*2", the second correct button is "Button n*1" and the third correct button is "Button n*3"", but i really don't have idea of how i have to do this.
I tried with if statements but if for example the combination is 123-312-123 the animation of the boxes will show up.
I want that only if i do the combination 213 the box is open, than if i go wrong i have to repeat the combination.
Can anyone help me?

Simple way, have a collection of right sequence:
int[] solution = new int[]{2,1,3};
then anytime a button is used, add its value to another collection:
List<int> sequence = new list<int>();
void OnPress(int buttonValue)
{
if(sequence.Contains(buttonValue)){ return; } // Don't add twice
sequence.Add(buttonValue);
if(sequence.Count == solution.Length)
{
if(CompareSequence())
{
// win
}
else
{
sequence.Clear();
}
}
}
bool CompareSequence()
{
// this should not be since we checked before but just to be sure
if(solution.Length != sequence.Count){ return false; }
for(int i = 0; i < solution.Length; i++)
{
if(solution[i] != sequence[i]){ return false; }
}
return true;
}
Each action on button would pass its own value that gets added to the list.
When the list and the solution are same length, they get compared. If they are same, you move to win section, if not, the sequence is cleared and user needs to refill content.

Reading a .txt file line by line into multiple text boxes with buttons in a c# windows form

I have got a txt file with 10 lines in it, each line is a record with 5 different fields;
Farrell,Jade,Louise,2011/09/13,F
I am using the commas to split record by FamilyName, FirstName, MiddleName, EnrolmentDate and Gender. I want each field to have its own text box then use buttons to look through the different records.
Everything so far is working under the load button which reads the data from the file and puts it into the text boxes using the code below which works but it only shows the first record so i want a buttons to show the next record, previous record, first and last record and also a button to sort the data from A-Z by the family name. Any help on how to go forward would be great! thanks!
private void Load_BT_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
OpenFileDialog filechooser = new OpenFileDialog();
StreamReader filereader = new StreamReader("StudentFile.txt");
String inputrecord = filereader.ReadLine();
string[] inputfields;
if (inputrecord != null)
{
inputfields = inputrecord.Split(',');
FamName_TXT.Text = inputfields[0];
FirstName_TXT.Text = inputfields[1];
MiddleName_TXT.Text = inputfields[2];
Enrolment_txt.Text = inputfields[3];
Gender_TXT.Text = inputfields[4];
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("End of File");
}
}

I think there are some design issues here, but i will address your immediate concern. The problem is you only read one line. You need to iterate over all the lines in the textfile. I am assuming you want the load button to load all the data at once.
string[] allRecords = filereader.ReadAllLines();
foreach(string inputRecord in allRecords) {
string[] inputfields = inputRecord.Split(',');
//insert the textbox.Text += inputfields[0] + "\n"; etc
}
if you want a single button to resort the data across all the textboxes.
you really should create a class called Person with properties that correspond to your fields and override compareTo so you can sort by last name or maybe use linq to do the sort for you.
you need a list that will host all of these person objects
from there you can populate the textboxes accordingly
Create a sort button that will reorder the list or create a new list and repopulate the textboxes.
1-3 would be done in the load button. The reason for the person class is because you want all the data you read in from the file to be associate with an object. if you try to do the sorting directly from the textboxes as you seem to be trying to do you will run into issues such as how to make sure the data doesnt get jumbled. It certainly may be possible but it is not an elegant way and would be more work in my mind

Assistance regarding tabs in Windows Forms

I'm currently working on a small side project as a way of getting used to Forms in Visual Studio 2012, as I usually only work with Console Applications. My current layout is designed to use tabs, and the user is to specify how many of the tabs they need for this application. They then fill out some information and it will be formatted and output to a file at a location specified by the user. On to the questions.
In order to stop duplicate tabs from existing, I'm using the following:
private void comboTabs_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (comboSkills.SelectedIndex == 0)
{
tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(tab8);
tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(tab7);
tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(tab6);
tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(tab5);
tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(tab4);
}
//repeat for Index 1, 2 and so on
}
There will always be a minimum of 3 tabs, so the first selection on the combo box removes tabs 4 through 8. The next selection does the same, but then adds tab4 back again. This goes on for the following selections. Is there any way I can do this more conveniently?
Second question, each tab has a series of text boxes and combo boxes that users are to select information from. The problem I'm having is that I need to identify how many tabs the user has selected and then only pull information from those tabs. I'm aware that I can get the number of tabs with:
int numberoftabs = tabControl1.TabCount;
But after that I can't seem to read the information from them. I'm intending to do
for (int i = 0; i < numberoftabs; i++)
{
//get textbox text of tab i and so on
}
Is there any way I can do this? I was hoping to use a tab layout since I like my current layout very much. If it makes a difference, all the tabs have the same layout, and share a naming convention such as tab 1 text box 1 is textTab1Name, tab 2 text box 2 is textTab2Name and so on.

For the first part of your question, you can handle all cases with this piece of code:
var tabCount = 5 - comboBox1.SelectedIndex;
for (var i = 0; i < tabCount; i++)
{
tabControl1.TabPages.RemoveAt(7-i);
}
For the second part you will have to create this method:
private T GetControl<T>(string name) where T : Control
{
return (T) this.Controls.Find(name, true).FirstOrDefault();
}
Then you can write your text retrieval loop like this:
for (int i = 0; i < numberoftabs; i++)
{
//get textbox text of tab i and so on
TextBox textBox1 = GetControl<TextBox>("textTab" + i + "Name");
...
etc..
}

Winforms Listbox or Listview image and text

I'm not very experienced on c#. I'm working with winforms and I'm looking for a way to create something like a list of elements with this template , something like the autocompletion list of visual studio.
Is it possible to do? Shall I use listbox or listview?
EDIT
Sorry my question wasn't clear I don't want to create an autocomplete but what i want to create is something like this a list of things with an icon next to the text of that thing.

As I understand from your question, you can create custom UserControl or create a Form and put ListBox in it. If you use From be sure that you change border style layout, just set it to none. After creation for use it you should create form and show it where you want like this:
FrmAutoComplete x = new FrmAutoComplete();
x.Show();
you can put this form in ToolTipItem and show it.
Good luck.

THis is a quick and dirty example of using images in your Listview control. Since I don;t have a lot of information about what you plan to do, I tried to keep is simple.
In short, you need to load some images into one of the ImageLists (Large or Small) built into the Listview control and assign them keys so that you can assign them to specific list items as you add them.
The trick to this is determining which image to use for a specific list item (assuming there are different images assigned to different list items depending on some differentiating factor. For this example, I used an arbitrary assignment of "cars" or "trucks," and simply decided that the first five items in the list would be cars, and the last five would be trucks. I then assigned each image appropriately, using the image key as I added each listview item. You can do this for more complex scenarios, and when using the image key, it does not matter what order the items are added.
For this use case, you will want to create or use images with dimensions of 16 x 16 pixels. I went ahead and added two images to my project resource file, then simply accessed them using the project Properties.Resources name space. There are other ways to do this as well, but this is the most convenient for me.
Hope that helps.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
static string CAR_IMAGE_KEY = "Car";
static string TRUCK_IMAGE_KEY = "Truck";
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.SetupListview();
this.LoadListView();
}
private void SetupListview()
{
var imgList = new ImageList();
imgList.Images.Add("Car", Properties.Resources.jpgCarImage);
imgList.Images.Add("Truck", Properties.Resources.jpgTruckImage);
var lv = this.listView1;
lv.View = View.List;
lv.SmallImageList = imgList;
}
private void LoadListView()
{
for(int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
{
string currentImageKey = CAR_IMAGE_KEY;
if(i > 5) currentImageKey = TRUCK_IMAGE_KEY;
var item = this.listView1.Items.Add("Item" + i.ToString(), currentImageKey);
}
}

C# Text box remaining empty

I'm calling a public method from another class. It takes in a List as a parameter, and goes through the list printing out each item into a text field. The problem is the text field is remaining empty!. I've checked that the list is populated by outputing the item to the console before I put it into the text box, and the text is coming up fine there.
The list contains strings, and should output each string to the textfield followed by a semi colon.
This is the method which is being called:
public void fillAttachment(List<string> attachList)
{
for (int i = 0; i < attachList.Count; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine("List: " + attachList[i]);
txtAttach.Text += attachList[i] + ";";
}
}

I would solve it in this way:
foreach(var attach in attachList)
{
Console.WriteLine(attach);
txtAttach.AppendText(string.Format("{0};", attach));
}

Setting the text property on a text box and it not displaying could be one of the following:
You are not looking at the same control as you are setting the text in
Could you have instantiated a second copy of the form object and it is this form that you are setting the txtAttach text property in?
Could the control that you are expecting to be populated be a different one? Right click the text box that you want the text to appear in click properties and check the name.
Something else is clearing the textbox after you set it
Right click the txtAttach.Text and click Find All References, this will show you all the places that the Text property is referenced - written and read - in your project. This is a very useful way to locate other interaction with this control.
Fomatting is making the text box appear empty
Is the Font too small, or in the same colour as the background. Can you select the text in the text box?
The easiest way to test all of the above is to create a new text control on your form with a different name, change your code to populate it, check that it is indeed populated, then replace the old one.
As an aside, you could also reduce the code with a single line as follows:
public void fillAttachment(List<string> attachList)
{
txtAttach.Text = String.Join(";", attachList.ToArray());
}
Although this obviously skips out the console write line function.

Not sure why yours doesn't work but I would have done it like this...
public void fillAttachment(List<string> attachList)
{
string result = "";
//OR (if you want to append to existing textbox data)
//string result = txtAttach.Text;
for (int i = 0; i < attachList.Count; i++)
{
Console.WriteLine("List: " + attachList[i]);
result += attachList[i] + ";";
}
txtAttach.Text = result;
}
Does that work for you? If not then there is something else very wrong that is not obvious from your code