Enum value inside a case

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Xawtor

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Good afternoon All,

Is it possible to create a enum variable then using it in a case.
After moving to the next case with a increment of that variable.

Cheer,
Xawtor

B4X: 
Type SeasonsType (Summer As Int, Fall As Int, Winter As Int, Spring As Int)
Dim Seasons As SeasonsType
Seasons.Summer = 0:Seasons.Fall = 1:Seasons.Winter = Seasons.Spring = 3
   
   Select Seasons
      Case 0: Seasons++ 'Summer
      Case 1: Seasons++ 'Fall
      Case 2: Seasons++ 'Winter
      Case 3: Seasons++ 'Sping
   End Select

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B4X: 
Type SeasonsType (Summer As String, Fall As String, Winter As String, Spring As String)
Dim Seasons As SeasonsType
Seasons.Summer = "Summer":Seasons.Fall = "Fall":Seasons.Winter = "Winter":Seasons.Spring = "Spring"
   
   Select Seasons
      Case "Summer":Seasons++ 'Summer
      Case "Fall":  Seasons++ 'Fall
      Case "Winter":Seasons++ 'Winter
      Case "Spring":Seasons++ 'Sping
   End Select
 
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mc73

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I would choose to define an array
B4X: 
dim seasons()
seasons(0)="spring":seasons(1)="summer" 'and so on
and then I would run a loop
B4X: 
 dim season as int
for season=0 to 3
'do what you want with seasons(season)
next
If of course I understood correctly what you want to achieve.
 
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Xawtor

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Of course, I forgot to precise what I want to achieve sorry that's my bad. I need a state machine structure, I used to do it like that with VHDL code. Do you think that for loop stay the best way.

Cheers,
Xawtor
 
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mc73

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You have a state, call it 'summer'. From what I understand you want to move on to 'autumn'. Independently of what the intermediate processes are or can be, what I think is needed is simply a variable containing an index to the current state. We call it 'season'. So, every time you need to change 'season', you can add 1 to this state. If of course, again, I understand correctly, since I know nothing about vhdl. The thing is, which event will get to increase the state. As a reminder, b4a is an event driven language. If for some reasons you want changes to be performed without an event triggered, I think you can use a timer-based code.
 
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Hi mc73,

Thanks for fast reply, I've tried the code, and It's complied well, but always my app crashes. Do you have any ideas why it did that? The time isn't a problem for my app because I want to decode a protocol through the a buffer, so I just want finished decoding before leaving that process.

Cheers,
xawtor
 
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