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Hi folks, I guess this is just a basic programming question, but I've been reading the MSDN doc's on JScript's enumeration object and am having troubles 'getting it'.

In my specific scenario, I've opened a connection to a database using the ADODB object. That object has a property called State, which has several values to indicate what's going on with the connection - adStateOpened, adStateClosed, etc, all of type "ObjectStateEnum".

I know the numeric values for these constants, but don't want to have to refer to them as numbers as that's less meaningful than using the given enumerated names. What do I need to do to have access to them in my script??? So, for example, I could write:

code:

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if (objDBHandle.State == adStateOpened) { ... }

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Instead of...

code:

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if (objDBHandle.State == 1) { /* Opened state */ ... }

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or...

code:

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var _adStateClosed = 0;
var _adStateOpened = 1;
/* ... more states ... */

if (objDBHandle.State == 1) { /* Opened state */ ... }

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Ideas?

code:

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var _adStateClosed = 0;
var _adStateOpened = 1;
/* ... more states ... */

if (objDBHandle.State == _adStateOpened) { /* Opened state */ ... }

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will work

Can you use the enum statement (not sure if plus uses JScript .NET)?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y94acxy2(VS.71).aspx

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Originally posted by TheSteve
(not sure if plus uses JScript .NET)?

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it doesn't. you can't.