/* File: EntityTrailingEffectField.java CVS Info: $Id$ Compiler: jdk 1.2.2 */ package mil.navy.nps.disEnumerations; import mil.navy.nps.dis.*; import mil.navy.nps.util.*; /** * Entity Trailing Effect Field -- Describes the size of trailing effects from an entity. Trailing effects include dust clouds for land platforms, wakes for surface platforms, rocket flames for guided munitions, contrails and ionization trails for air paltforms, etc. *@version 1.1 *@author Ronan Fauglas *@author Don Brutzman * *
* This is effectively a C-style enumeration. Java doesn't do enumerations * like C, so you have to wrap a class around it. It's a bit more typing, * but pretty simple-minded. * Note that the variables are declared public. The default for access * is package-wide, but these variables might need to be accessed from * outside the package. Since all the variables are final (i.e. constant), nobody can * change anything anyway, so this is no biggie.
* To use these enumerations in your Java code, import the package first:
* import mil.navy.nps.disEnumerations.*;
* You access this via something like EntityTrailingEffectField.LARGE
, i.e. combine
* the class name, a period, and a class variable (enumeration) name.
* *
EntityTrailingEffectField.toString (0)
returns the string "NONE
"
*/
public static String toString(int idNumber)
{
switch (idNumber) {
case 0: return "None";
case 1: return "Small";
case 2: return "Medium";
case 3: return "Large";
default : return "";
}
}//end of toString
}//End of class