Enumeration

General
1

Good evening,
I have an enumeration formed in this way:

DL_OK = & H0
COMMUNICATION_ERROR = & H1
CHKSUM_ERROR = & H2
EADING_ERROR = & H3
and so on for a

Since I’m translating a program from VB.NET I see that to retrieve the name of each component of the enumeration actually does this(in VB.NET):

     For Each iValue In [Enum]. GetValues ??(GetType (ErrorCodes))
         ERROR_CODES (iValue) = [Enum]. GetName (GetType (ErrorCodes), iValue)
     Next

ERROR_CODES () is a string array

How can I do likewise with XOJO? And 'possible to do so?
thanks

2

You can’t do that in Xojo. Enumeration elements don’t have a string representation, so there is no Enum.GetName method.

3

You could try using constants instead, that should work.

4

James,

can you explain me better? Thank you.

BR

Fabio

5

Actually it might be possible to do it via introspection as well. Will have a look tomorrow

6

Neither the enumeration name nor the constant name are available via introspection. Xojo just doesn’t have a mechanism for that. You can fake it with an array or dictionary, but it requires duplicate effort.

7

I solved with array!
Thank you.

BR