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    Default Converting DB to code

    Hi guys,

    I'm trying to use values in my database as arguments for functions e.g. I have a column with colours e.g. red, blue etc and I would like to use these values as arguments into a function.

    In my header file, I've got #define red 7 etc etc, however the only way that I can think of using the database values would be a conversion function such as:

    Qt Code:
    1. int MyClass::Conversion(QString sDatabaseColumnText)
    2. {
    3. switch(sDatabaseColumnText)
    4. case "red":
    5. {
    6. return 7;
    7. }
    8. }
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    and then my function would just have:

    Qt Code:
    1. function(Conversion(query.value(0).toString();
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    I haven't compiled the code so I'm not sure if there are syntax errors, but it's the ideas that I'm more interested in.

    I obviously don't want to create a table in my database whereby I have an 'int' value assigned to my values, because this will double up my #defines and it's prone to errors and becomes an updating nightmare.

    EDIT P.S. I just remembered that cases can only use ints so my use of strings won't work, but anyway, imagine that I change my example to a bunch of 'if' statements.

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    Default Re: Converting DB to code

    This is tipical case to use map<int, string>
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