Accesin to a property by a string

[BlueIcaro]

Hello, my program reads a file like this:

atmega328.upload.protocol=stk500
atmega328.upload.maximum_size=30720
atmega328.upload.speed=57600
atmega328.bootloader.low_fuses=0xFF
atmega328.bootloader.high_fuses=0xDA

I read one line, and I got (after remove some parts):

String1 := 'upload.protocol'
data1 := 'stk500'

I have a object with like this:

MYobject.upload.protocol
Myobject.bootloader.low
(etc. The object have  property called like the lines)

Well I want to assign Data1 to MYobject.upload.protocol

I thought:
 

IF String1 = 'upload.protocol' Then
   MYobject.upload.protocol := data1;
ElseIf (...)

But Can I access to the properties, in other way more easy?, like:

MyObject.[String1]:=Data1

I hope I explain... because It's a very complicate explain this problem for me in english

/BlueIcaro

[eny]

Serial communication with an atmega328? I prefer PIC's 

I can think if several solutions:
Use an array property like TStringList.Values[...]. This makes using the class easier, but you'll still have to check the string value of the parm within the class.

Use some sort of RTTI. But that's probably a bit messy because you're distributing the parms over several classes.

Swap responsibilities: give the classes that need parameter values (upload, bootloader) access to the settings repository, so they can request the values when needed.

[BlueIcaro]

Thank you for your answer. I think I don't have choice, I'll have to hard-code.

I'm making a new IDE for Arduino, because the original it's code in Java, and in my opnion it's a little bit limited. So I'm trying to do a new IDE, like Lazarus. By the moment the proyect is very new, only a few forms, and code.

Serial communication with an atmega328? I prefer PIC's

Well, I have a board called Arduino, check the www.arduino.cc.

/BlueIcaro

[Leledumbo]

TStringList supports Key=Value pairs, so if you do:

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StringList.Add('MyKey=MyValue');
You can get MyValue or assign MyKey with:

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MyValue := StringList.Values['MyKey'];

StringList.Values['MyKey'] := MyValue;
You can also use true map data structure with TFPGMap from fgl unit.