Retrieving data elements from inside an ArrayList Class

shiftingspanner · May 17th, 2010, 01:00 AM

I've created a class PulldownArray, which contains two strings Value and Description. I created an array of this class called PulldownTABLE with the ArrayList^ command in my main program and I then populate it with the .Add method. All this works fine.

How do I retrive the Value and Description strings for an individual item in PulldownTABLE?

Code:

public ref class PulldownArray{
	public:
		String^ myValue;
		String^ myDescription;
	public:
		~PulldownArray(){
		}
		PulldownArray( String^ strValue, String^ strDescription ){
			this->myValue = strValue;
			this->myDescription = strValue + " \t " + strDescription;
		}
	property
		String^ Value{
			String^ get(){
			return myValue;
			}
		}
	property
		String^ Description{
			String^ get(){
				return myDescription;
			}
	   }
	virtual 
		String^ ToString() override{
		   return this->myValue;
	    }
};


main{.....

String^ ReturnString;

ArrayList^ PulldownTABLE = gcnew ArrayList;
PulldownTABLE->Add(gcnew PulldownArray("TABLE1", "TABLE1_description"));
PulldownTABLE->Add(gcnew PulldownArray("TABLE2", "TABLE2_description"));

//Works, but I don't want to have to write overrides for every element
ReturnString = PulldownTABLE[1]->ToString();
//Can see both myDescription and Description in the debugger but these both fail at compile
ReturnString = PulldownTABLE[1]->myDescription;
ReturnString = PulldownTABLE[1]->Description();
...
}

Any help would be appreciated but please keep it simple as I'm particularily stupid and ignorant.