Re: enumerated types: best way to fake them?
Re: enumerated types: best way to fake them?
- Subject: Re: enumerated types: best way to fake them?
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 16:43:29 -0500
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Subject: enumerated types: best way to fake them?
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From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:34:23 -0500
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My statement here assumes that there is not enumerated type support in
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AS, but I don't know that this is accurate. All I know is that searches
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on enum, enumerate, etc. in the ASLG failed, and I don't *know* how to
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do it already.
No, enumeration is almost totally in the domain of applications and
the language itself. If something isn't defined in AE resources, you
have very few options.
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What I'd like is the ability to have a variable that can take one of
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three values, and would be treated by AS in the same way that enumerated
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values of app objects are.
I often "borrow" enumerations that are already defined in Scripting
Additions or else where:
on DoSomething( yes_no_ask )
if ( yes_no_ask = yes ) then
...
else if ( yes_no_ask = no ) then
...
else if ( yes_no_ask = ask ) then
...
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Has anyone come up with a better idea for this sort of thing? Or do you
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just use integer flags or strings.
Right, nothing wrong with integer flags:
property apple : 0
property banana : 1
property orange : 2
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