[Solved]Iterate over enum, using QMetaEnum

ealione

Lets say I have something like

@enum Letters
{ A, B };@

How can I iterate over them and print each one as a string for example?
I do know about the existence of QMetaEnum, but I can not find a useful example of it.

Thank you for your time.

SGaist

Hi,

QMetaEnum is used in conjunction with Q_ENUMS. Is it the case of yours ?

ealione

Hi SGaist,
No I was not using Q_ENUMS, yet I am open to any possible suggestions as I have never dealt with anything similar before.

ealione

After SGaist's hint I ended up with a possible solution

I first define on my class

@class SomeClass : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
Q_ENUMS(Letters)

public:
enum Letters
{ A, B };

...@

then I can simply do

@QMetaObject meta = SomeClass::staticMetaObject;
QMetaEnum tmpObj = meta.enumerator(0);
for (int i = 0; i < tmpObj.keyCount(); i++)
{
qDebug() << tmpObj.key(i);
}@

If there are any better ways i'd be glad to know.

SGaist

It depends on you use case. You can also have a simple function with a switch that returns a string