JCL Help:JclGenerateEnumTypeBasedOn

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Summary

Generates the RTTI structure for a new enumeration base type based on an existing enumeration.

Pascal

 function JclGenerateEnumTypeBasedOn(const TypeName: ShortString; BaseType: PTypeInfo; const PrefixCut: Byte): PTypeInfo;

Parameters

Parameters	Description
const TypeName: ShortString	Name of the newly generated RTTI.
BaseType: PTypeInfo	Pointer to RTTI of enumeration type to base the new type on. The pointer can be obtained from a call to System.TypeInfo(ordinal type), JclGenerateEnum* or JclGenerateSubRange.
const PrefixCut: Byte	Number of characters to skip from the left. Additionally this value can be set to PREFIX_CUT_LOWERCASE (skip all leading lowercase characters) or PREFIX_CUT_EQUAL (skip all common leading characters).

Return Value

The return value is a pointer to the RTTI info.

Description

JclGenerateEnumTypeBasedOn generates the RTTI structure for a new enumeration type, based on an existing enumeration.

About

Unit

JclRTTI

Donator

Marcel Bestebroer

Notes

All generated types are stored in a list and get freed on finalization of the JclRTTI unit. Optionally you can use RemoveTypeInfo to remove a specific type.

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