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Enum

Summary

DEPRECATED

Properties

NameInternal nameSearchableInformation collector
Enum ezenum Yes. No.

Description

This datatype should not be used any more because it is slow. It has been substituted by the "Selection" datatype.

Balazs Halasy (21/02/2005 2:37 pm)

Balazs Halasy (27/04/2005 8:47 am)

Comments

  • Deprecated Enum

    Friday 14 November 2008 11:34:25 am

    Blue lue Boy

    Although I understand Selection is faster than Enum, it doesn't exactly match usage of the latest. Using Selection forces us to store choices as an array from 0 to n rather than a hash widh any type of keys and values.

    Should we expect the deprecated enum to be removed shortly or can we still keep using it until the Selection can handle pairs of key => value ?

    • Re: Deprecated Enum

      Saturday 22 November 2008 5:36:23 pm

      Marco Zinn

      I very much agree with that question.
      In cases where you need a key, enum is the better (and only?) way for this at the moment.

  • docs

    Thursday 25 June 2009 4:27:26 pm

    pike

    the .content of an ezenum attribute returns a enum object, which has at least an .enumobject_list property that is a list of strings. from the datatype / view template:

    {section var=Elements loop=$attribute.content.enumobject_list sequence=array( bglight, bgdark )}
{$Elements.item.enumelement|wash( xhtml )}<br />
{/section}


    if anyone knows a link to legacy documentation of this object, let us know !

    *-pike