translate string to variable name

[sterlingy]

Is it possible to take the contents of a string, such as "blockC" and have it treated as a variable name, like this:

bitmapName = "blockC"

myImage.setbackground(bitmapName)

I know the above code doesn't work, I'm just trying to illustrate my objective.

-Sterling

 

[agraham]

If you really needed to do this you could do it using the Reflection library, at least for global variables, but in practice why would you need to?

 

[Erel]

Another option is to use a Map that maps between the strings and the views.