GLenum = editbox text? (Win32/OGL question)

I have a dialog box in which i have 7 text boxs.
they each are for 7 parameters in a function i have created for creating a light in openGL.
the parameters are:
name (GL_LIGHT0, GL_LIGHT1, etc)
position x
position y
position z
red
green
blue

i can get every parameter to be taken from the editboxs except for the name.

basicly my question is, how do i get a GLenum value to = edit box text?

any help will be very much appreciated!

-psychopath

You could use string comparison to get the relevant values (GLenum) for the corresponding string identifier from the edit control.

Another possibility is to use a listbox - that way you could add the GLenum values as item data to the list items which you could retrieve when that particular value (or multiple values if you require multi-selection) is chosen. See LB_SETITEMDATA for more information if you're interested in trying that as an alternative.

>>You could use string comparison to get the relevant values (GLenum) for the corresponding string identifier from the edit control.<<
if you mean somthing like (for example):

Code:

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GLenum name;
char c_name;

c_name = getthetextfromthetextboxetc();
name = c_name;
CreateNewLight(name, posX, posY etc etc);

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then i tried that and it diddn't work (light diddn't appear);

a listbox probably won't work in this particular situation.

If it helps, here is the code, tho it dosn't have anything done to get the 'name' value from the textbox (as nothing i tried worked ;P), and the name parameter in the CreateNewLight(); function is replaced with GL_LIGHT0, just so i could see if there was nothing wrong with the light code itself

Code:

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BOOL CALLBACK LightInsertDlgProc(HWND hWnd, UINT Message, WPARAM wparam, LPARAM lparam)
{
    switch(Message)
    {
        case WM_INITDIALOG:

        return TRUE;
        case WM_COMMAND:
            switch(LOWORD(wparam))
            {
                        case IDOK:
                                BOOL bSuccess1;
                                BOOL bSuccess2;
                                BOOL bSuccess3;
                                BOOL bSuccess4;
                                BOOL bSuccess5;
                                BOOL bSuccess6;
                                BOOL bSuccess7;
                               
                                GLenum name;
                                float posX;
                                float posY;
                                float posZ;
                                float red;
                                float green;
                                float blue;

                                posX = GetDlgItemInt(hWnd, IDPOSXBOX, &bSuccess1, FALSE);
                                posY = GetDlgItemInt(hWnd, IDPOSXBOX, &bSuccess2, FALSE);
                                posZ = GetDlgItemInt(hWnd, IDPOSXBOX, &bSuccess3, FALSE);
                                red = GetDlgItemInt(hWnd, IDREDBOX, &bSuccess4, FALSE);
                                green = GetDlgItemInt(hWnd, IDGREENBOX, &bSuccess5, FALSE);
                                blue = GetDlgItemInt(hWnd, IDBLUEBOX, &bSuccess6, FALSE);
                               

                                CreateNewLight(GL_LIGHT0, posX, posY, posZ, red, green, blue);
                                EndDialog(hWnd, IDCANCEL);
                                break;
                       
                        case IDCANCEL:
                                EndDialog(hWnd, IDCANCEL);
                break;
            }
        break;
        default:
            return FALSE;
    }
    return TRUE;
}

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-psychopath

There is no built-in way to get a enum value from its name at run-time. We must build a lookup table that will let us match a string name to its value. This thread provides a method to create a lookup table. Once we have a lookup table we can search through it looking for the provided string. We could also use it to add the values to a list box.

Code:

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#define BIND(x)  {x,#x}

struct StringToGlEnum
{
  GLenum      value;
  const char* name;
}
GlEnumNameLookupTable =
{
        BIND(GL_LIGHT0),
        BIND(GL_LIGHT1)

        // More values here as needed.
}


int main(void)
{
        int i;
        char test[] = "GL_LIGHT1"; // Assume this value came from a control

        // Now we can lookup the value of GL_LIGHT1 in our lookup table

        for (i = 0;i < sizeof(GlEnumNameLookupTable) / GlEnumNameLookupTable[0];i++)
        {
                if (strcmp(test, GlEnumNameLookupTable[i].name) == 0)
                {
                        printf("The value of %s is %d\n", test, GlEnumNameLookupTable[i].value);
                        break;
                }
        }

        getchar();
        return 0;
}

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sorry for the late post...iv'e been away for a while.

yea i'll try this...actually i have it half implemented, but like i said, iv'e been away for a while, so i havn't been able to work on this much.

-psychopath