I am currently designing an app, where I want to modify the data of a 1 x 1 structure with 162 fields. The string of the fieldname can be chosen from a dropdown menu and the desired value of said field can be selected via an EditField.
So if, for example I want to change the value of the field "X" to the value "XValue"
app.ValueDropDown.Value = "X"structure.X = Xvalue
However I want the App to change the value of roughly 50 fields, depending on what the user desires and I currently see no other way than to do that using 50 if functions.
FieldNameVariable = app.ValueDropDown.Value %The FieldNameVariable now is of type "Char"
FieldNameVariable = convertCharsToStrings(FieldNameVariable) %The FieldNameVariable now is of type "String"
if FieldNameVariable = "X" structure.X = XValue else FileNameVariable = "X2" structure.x2= XValue else FileNameVariable = "X3" structure.x3= XValue ... else FileNameVariable = "X50" structure.x50= XValueend
Not only is this quite tedious to program, by programming it this way, one does need to change the app code if a new field wants to be made avaible for change.
Does anyone know a way to select and change the values of a certain Field using a string identical to the Field-Name?
Thanks in advance
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