i feel like such a noob thanks guys .. i know better than to enumerate my values like that.
Now what would the most efficient way be to house nameList in an .ini file and use that instead of hard coding the list in the plugin, i was trying to keep the plugin as simple as possible but it seems that if i ever wanted to change the names or add more i would have to recompile the plugin each time ... so in trying to make things easier for me and keeping the plugin small what would you suggest?