RE: [DotGNU]Winforms StatusBar

[Simon Guindon]

Thanks Francisco, it worked out great.  Much appreciated.

All that's left to do in StatusBar is the rendering now, all the
framework is coded out.  Pretty simple control actually except for the
displaying.

Thanks,
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco Figueiredo Jr. [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: June 17, 2003 9:25 PM
To: Simon Guindon
Cc: Portable. NET
Subject: Re: [DotGNU]Winforms StatusBar


Simon Guindon wrote:

> k so I've hit a little bit of an implementation wall trying to 
> implement StatusBar.  The problem is in the StatusBarPanelCollection, 
> it inherits from IList, ICollection, Ienumerable.
> 
> Ilist requires it to implement the Add(object) and such methods, but 
> if you look at the MSDN docs, there is no such thing, it has 
> Add(StatusBarPanel).
> 
> So I decided to implement both, it compiles fine, but in the designer 
> it does not react properly, when you use designer to add panels it 
> adds it as Object and that's wrong because now you can't adjust the 
> correct properties because their not exposed.  If I don't implement 
> the
> Add(object) method it just complains because it needs to be
implemented.
> So how do I get around this?
> 

You have to implement the IList as an explicit interface implementation.

So, instead of having public int Add(Object value) you do it like this:
int IList.Add(Object value)

and later you can add your public int Add(StatusBarPanel panel)

There are a lot of implementations like this in the MS implementation. A
classic example is the Int32 structure. You can see that it implements 
the IComparable, IFormattable and IConvertible interfaces, but in the 
Int32 members you don't see any mention of IConvertible implemented 
methods!
For more information, please check the excellent book: Applied Microsoft

.Net Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter check the section:
Explicit Interface Member Implementation and the section Be careful with

Explicit Interface Method Implementation where he says that MS decided 
to implement the IConvertible as explicit interface just because she 
didn't want to bloat the Int32 and others documentation with all that 
methods! :)


I hope it helps.


-- 
Regards,

Francisco Figueiredo Jr.

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