How to retrieve enumeration items names?

[vladk]

Hi,

Is it possible to get the very names instead of the values from enumeration?

For example:

Public Enum enmCount
zero
one
two
three
End Enum

And I would like to get the very word "one", not 1. I am interested if this is possible via the access to the "memory" or some APIs. Sounds a bit crazy; enumeration was not devised to be used in such a way, but I am quite interested.


Thanks

vladk

 

[strongm]

Yes. It is possible (with some minor restrictions). I figured out a way to do it a couple of years or so ago, and posted the method in this forum. Let's just do a quick keyword search ... hmmm ... can't find my generic solution at the moment, but here's an example specific to a particular ADO library, but it isn't hard to modify it

thread222-635114

 

[vladk]

Hi, strongm!

Thank you for such a great lesson! I was able to reproduce your example for standard enumerations, but I still quite puzzled how to make it work for the custom enumeration. I understand, it works for standard enums, but how to make it work for the custom one?

Thanks!

vladk