Troubling Refactoring on Windows

[Liam_Moran]

Hi all

I’m struggling with refactoring on Windows, the method Ben shows does not allow me to do it. I’ve looked at Ben’s code and compared to my own and i am unable to figure out what to do, it seem identical!

    void OnUserInput(string input)
    {
        if (input == "menu")
        {
            ShowMainMenu();
        }
        else if (CurrentScreen == Screen.MainMenu)
        {
            if (input == "1")
            {
                level = 1;
                StartGame();
            }
            else if (input == "2")
            {
                level = 2;
                StartGame();
            }
            else if (input == "501")
            {
                Terminal.WriteLine("LARA!!");
            }
            else
            {
                Terminal.WriteLine("Please enter a valid selection");
            }
        }          
    }

Because the right click method doesn’t work, i go to edit - refactor - extract method and i get the following error.

Any help will be much appreciated!

[Rob]

Hi Liam,

Assuming this script is already error free, it may just be that Visual Studio has it’s cache/debug symbols a little bit screwed up. You can try this to resolve that;

• Within Visual Studio, right-click on the solution and select Clean Solution from the context menu
• You will see some messages being output to the console during this brief process, you should end up with a message that states it completed successfully, there will be a number also which refers to the number of projects within the solution it cleaned
• Right-click again on the solution and select Build Solution from the context menu, this will similarly output to the console and indicate success/failure. Note, if there are errors in your code you will not get a successful build.
• Close Visual Studio
• Within Unity, double-click one of your scripts to launch Visual Studio, this will automatically re-open the solution
• Re-try your process of refactoring

Let me know what happens.

[Liam_Moran]

Amazing it worked!!!

Took me a while to get to where you said, but it nows works exactly how Ben’s had.

Life saver! Thank you!

[Rob]

You’re very welcome. I was going to add some screenshots to make it a little clearer but I had hoped you’d get there without these.

I have responded to another student with a similar response in the past which had some screenshots - always worth a quick search on the forum to see if anyone else has had similar issues

In fact, it was a little video, I’ll link it here in case anyone else reads this topic before the other, might help.

• If you can not extract method - here is a solution!