Re: Should this be an object?


"MP" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote

does this seem like the right direction to head?

No.

Turn 180 degrees and start thinking about how you can
de-couple your objects from everything else. You don't
really want them to know about the outside world, any more
than you want to require the outside world to know how your
object works.

The less code they are 'required' to include in 'handling' eachother
the better....

As others have said, if its text that needs to be displayed,
then offer a function to return the text. If it is something
to be drawn, then you might pass in the hDC or other canvas
on which to draw itself. It could care less if that 'canvas' is a
form, picturebox, or printer, etc... And the code that calls on
the object to draw itself, doesn't care how it does it, as long as
it draws itself to the place indicated by the passed in hDC or
other canvas. (form, picturebox...)

LFS



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