ISCDOPhysUnit.AsString

Description

The description of the CDO physical unit that is returned as string.

Syntax

object.AsString

Part	Attribute	Type	Description
`object`	Required	ISCDOPhysUnit	The `object` always implements the ISCDOPhysUnit interface

Restriction: This property is readonly.

Return Value

string

Example

Display the number of the physical units of the specified physical quantity and some information about them, including their names and values converted into the source physical unit.

Dim aSrcUnit, aUnit
Dim aPhysQuantity
Dim aValue
Dim i
Dim aMessage

Set aSrcUnit = Profile.FindCDOPsysUnitByText("g")
set aPhysQuantity = aSrcUnit.PhysQuantity

aMessage = "Source Physical Unit: " & aSrcUnit.AsString & vbNewLIne &_
  "Physical Quantity System Unit: " & aPhysQuantity.SysUnit.AsString & vbNewLIne &_
  "Other Units of the Physical Quantity: "

for i = 0 to aPhysQuantity.PhysUnitCount - 1
  set aUnit = aPhysQuantity.PhysUnit(i)
  aValue = aSrcUnit.ConvertValue(1, aUnit) 
  
  aMessage = aMessage & vbNewLine & (i + 1) & ") " & aUnit.AsString &_
    " (= " & aValue  & " " & aSrcUnit.AsString & ")"
next 
 
Profile.MsgBox(aMessage)

Note: In Profile Client v8 on User Interface String Description of CDO Physical Units can be found in Maintain > Units and Measures.

Version information

Added in v8.2.0