Re: [Vala] Display values of an enum.

[Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net>]

Bob Hazard wrote:
> I had never heard of EnumClass or EnumValue until I saw your code but
> after a quick play around with it the following seems to actually
> work:
>
>
> enum Something
> {
>       TEST1,
>       TEST2,
>       TEST3;
>       
>       public string toString ()
>       {
>               return ((EnumClass)typeof (Something).class_ref ()).get_value
> (this).value_name;
>       }
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>       Something e  = Something.TEST3;
>       
>       print (e.toString () + "\n");
> }
>
>
> bob tbird:~/Projects/obj$ valac enumtest.vala
> bob tbird:~/Projects/obj$ ./enumtest
> SOMETHING_TEST3

For this special case you do not need any extra code:

enum Something {
        TEST1,
        TEST2,
        TEST3
}

void main () {
        Something e = Something.TEST3;
        print ("%s\n", e.to_string ());

        // Or even shorter:
        print (@"$e\n");
}


Best regards,
Frederik