You can access them as strings: Foo.ELEMENT.to_string() (or any Foo-typed
expression). The default result may be a bit clunky, but very useful
nevertheless. Add you own to_string if you want to get fancy.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:51 AM, rastersoft <ras...@rastersoft.com> wrote:
> El 31/08/16 a las 17:20, Al Thomas escribió:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >> From: Evan Nemerson <e...@coeus-group.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 17:11
> >> Subject: Re: [Vala] Array as big as an enum
> >>
> >> On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 23:47 +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> >>> Sorry, I found how to do that:
> >>>
> >>> int[] blah = new int[LAST_ELEMENT];
> >> If you want to avoid having a LAST_ELEMENT value, something like this
> >> will also work:
> >>
> >> ((GLib.EnumClass) typeof(Foo).class_ref ()).n_values
> >>
> >> I'm not necessarily advocating it, but if you really want to keep your
> >> API clean it's an option.
> >>
> >
> > This gets the GType of Foo, instantiates it by increasing the ref count,
> > casts it to EnumClass and then uses the n_values field.
> >
> > If someone was to add syntax support for this for both EnumClass and
> > FlagsClass, what would be the best way for this to look?
> >
> > a) Explicit instantiation of the Foo EnumClass:
> >
> > var a = new Foo ();
> > print ("%i", a.n_values);
> >
> > b) Implicit access to EnumClass methods and fields:
> > print ("%i", Foo.v_values);
> >
>
> The B one sounds better, I think. Even more: it would be great to be
> able to access to the enums as strings too.
>
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