Hi, is it possible to access constants programmatically?
I have a long list of commands the user can pick from a popup menu. Each item relates to the name of a constant in my class. Since there are lots of them I would like to avoid a huge select statement with something like…
MyClass.Constants.value(MyPopupMenu.Text)Is this kind of thing possible?
No.
No. You should use a shared method. Pass a string, and return the desired value. Constants can’t be dictionaries.
Thanks for the quick response Greg and Rick, I really appreciate it.
I guess constants are compile time only then.
I guess I’ll hold a Dictionary instead so I can look them up at runtime and forfeit code completion.
Yes, constants should be just labels for values to be substituted at compile time. So:
Const name1 = “rick”
msgBox name1 // is the same as msgBox “rick”
Many thanks Rick, understood. I’m going down the shared Dictionary property route.
Hi Rick, this is more or less where I was going - but you have introduced me to Static - which I didn’t know existed.
Many thanks!!!