ISCDOPhysUnit.PhysQuantity

Description

The physical quantity of the CDO physical unit.

Syntax

object.PhysQuantity

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

Restriction: This property is readonly.

Return Value

ISCDOPhysQuantity

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 CDO Physical Quantities can be found in Maintain > Units and Measures.

Version information

Added in v7.8.0