Passing an enum as a paramater

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  12 years ago

  by ICEMAN2303

  Chris Bleile

  Iowa, United States

  Joined 14 years ago

  Hello,

      I am trying to pass an enum as a parameter to and another class.  The class that is going to receive it does not know what the values of the enum are.  This class is going to be used throughout my program where I need to pass several different enum's through to it.  Does anyone know how to do this? 

  Thanks in advance.
  
   

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  12 years ago

  by Mohammad Rastkar

  Mohammad Rastkar

  Shiraz, Iran

  Joined 14 years ago

  Hello ICEMAN2303,

   

  => You can pass ‘my_enum’ or any other type of enumerations to the ‘test’ function, as a parameter :

  enum MyEnum

  {

  A = 0,

  B = 1,

  C = 3

  }

  MyEnum my_enum;

  private void test(Enum a)

  {

  Array consts = Enum.GetValues(a.GetType()); // enumeration constants

  string[] names = Enum.GetNames(a.GetType()); // names of enumeration constants

  a = (Enum)consts.GetValue(2); // set the enumeration with its first constant

  int first_value = (int)consts.GetValue(0); // set with the value of first enumeration constant

  if (a.Equals(consts.GetValue(consts.Length - 1)))

  MessageBox.Show("Enumeration has its last value");

  }

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