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From: gaffney@ewir-wr (GAFFNEY.BRIAN)
Subject: "Use"ing Enumerated type values?
Date: 1996/02/23
Date: 1996-02-23T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23FEB199614115172@ewir-wr> (raw)

I'm trying to write a program utilizing the ANSI screen package posted by Ray
Toal.  What I'd like to do for clarity is something like this:
--
with Text_IO;
with Ansi_Terminal;
procedure Test_Ansi is
  package Ansi renames Ansi_Terminal;
  ForeGrd, BackGrd : Ansi.Color;   -- type Color is (Black,..., White);
begin
  Ansi.Erase_Display;
  BackGrd := White;			--Error, White not visible
  ForeGrd := Black;  			--Error, Black not visible
  Ansi.Set_Character_Colors (BackGrd, ForeGrd);
  Text_IO.Put("This should be home.");
end Ansi_Test;
--
However, to use the values for Ansi.Color, I need to specify "Ansi.White" and
"Ansi.Black".  I'd like to use the values of Color without the "Ansi."
everytime.  Since I don't want to "use" Ansi_Terminal, I thought "use type
Ansi.Color" would work but I still can't use the values directly.  If I define 
my own Color as a subtype of Ansi.Color, I can define my variables as Colors, 
and refer to the values of Color, but I can't use these variables as parameters
to routines in Ansi (they expect type Ansi.Color).

Is there any way to refer directly to the values of a type without "use"ing the
entire package?

BTW I'm "use"ing GNAT 3.01 on DOS(DJGPP).

-- LONG pause while I check the RM --

The RM seems to indicate that "use type" is intended for using operations of
the type, so I guess it doesn't work with values... (?)

					--Bg 




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-02-23  0:00 GAFFNEY.BRIAN [this message]
1996-02-23  0:00 ` "Use"ing Enumerated type values? James A. Krzyzanowski
1996-02-24  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-02-24  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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