JoseHidalgo

asked on 10/6/2011

UserControl with Generics

Hi

I have my Color Picker Control which have ChildWinEditLayout Parent property. Now I want to use generics. I want to have my NewChildWinEditLayout Parent or OldChildWinEditLayout to be set as MyParent.

How can I make this code only have one constructor using generics ?

public partial class ColorPickerControl : UserControl
  {
   
    OldChildWinEditLayout myParent;
    NewChildWinEditLayout myParentControl;
    string tag;

    public ColorPickerControl(OldChildWinEditLayout myParent1, string tag1)
    {
      tag = tag1;
      myParent = myParent1;
      InitializeComponent();
    }

    public ColorPickerControl(NewChildWinEditLayout myParent1, string tag1)
    {
        tag = tag1;
        myParentControl = myParent1;
        InitializeComponent();
    }

}

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Also my ColorPicker control has this line of code

myParent.SetForeColor("UpDown");

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How can I enforce that classes that use my ColorPicker Color must have SetForeColor property.

Thanks

C#.NET Programming

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JoseHidalgo

8/22/2022 - Mon

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JoseHidalgo

10/6/2011

ASKER

I create an interface like this:

public interface IColorPicker
    {
        void SetForeColor(string s);
    }

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then

public partial class NewChildWinEditLayout : IColorPicker
public partial class OldChildWinEditLayout : IColorPicker

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finally

public void SetForeColor(string s)
    {
      txtForeColor.Text = s;
    }

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When I compile the code it show me an error in ColorPickerControl that says:

"Error 1 'object' does not contain a definition for 'SetForeColor' and no extension method 'SetForeColor' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

    Object myParent;
    string tag;

    public ColorPickerControl(Object myParent1, string tag1)
    {
      tag = tag1;
      myParent = myParent1;
      InitializeComponent();
    }  

    if (tag == "b")
    {
       //myParent.SetBackColor(s);
    }
    else
    {
       myParent.SetForeColor(s);
    }

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How can I solve this issue?

JoseHidalgo

10/7/2011

ASKER

Fixed

    IColorPicker myParent;
    string tag;

    public ColorPickerControl(IColorPicker myParent1, string tag1)
    {
      tag = tag1;
      myParent = myParent1;
      InitializeComponent();
    }

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JoseHidalgo

10/7/2011

ASKER

Thanks

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