The constant *is* an NSString; essentially you could do: NSString *constValue = NSDeviceResolution;
Though, that may be a little redundant. --Nick Paulson On Jan 4, 2010, at 6:09 PM, David Alter wrote: > This would work for finding out what the name is as well as logging it. > > What if I'm getting a string passed in that is the name of the constant and > I want to return the constants string value. Is there a way to do that? > > something like... > NSString * constValue = [SomeToolToLookupConstants constant:@ > "NSDeviceResolution']; > > any idea? > -dave > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Oftenwrong Soong > <oftenwrongso...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:56 PM, David Alter <alterconsult...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Is there a way to lookup what and NString constant is at runtime? >> >> >> >> Have you tried >> >> [NSDeviceResolution description] >> >> or >> >> [NSString stringWithString:NSDeviceResolution] >> >> ? >> >> Soong >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/alterconsulting%40gmail.com >> >> This email sent to alterconsult...@gmail.com >> > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoa%40nickpaulson.com > > This email sent to co...@nickpaulson.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com