[Gtk-sharp-list] is this legal in C#

[George Farris]

Of course, what an idiot I am.  Ya know sometime you just can't see the
forest for the trees.

Thanks.

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 21:08, Ian MacLean wrote:
> George,
> 
> This is because you are repeatedly setting values on the same instance. 
> So every element of the array is a reference to the same object c. Try this:
> 
> 	Phonebook[] pbooks = null; 						
>   	pbooks = new Phonebook[3]; 			  	
>   	for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++  )
>   	{
>   		// Create a new instance in each loop iteration
> 		Phonebook c = new Phonebook();
> 		c.Name = "name"+i.ToString());
>   		c.Type = "type"+i.ToString());
>   		c.Path = "path"+i.ToString());
>   		pbooks[i] = c;
>   	}
> Ian
> > Is this legal to make an array of a class?  I think so but it doesn't
> > work.  Mono 0.20 on Linux.
> > 
> > public class Phonebook
> > {
> > 	public string Name;
> > 	public string Path;
> > 	public string Type;
> > }
> > 	
> > public class Phonetools
> > {
> > 	Phonebook[] pbooks = null;
> > 						
> > 	pbooks = new Phonebook[3];
> > 			
> > 
> > 	Phonebook c = new Phonebook();
> > 	for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++  )
> > 	{
> > 		c.Name = "name"+i.ToString());
> > 		c.Type = "type"+i.ToString());
> > 		c.Path = "path"+i.ToString());
> > 		pbooks[i] = c;
> > 	}
> > 
> > 	foreach (Phonebook x in pbooks)
> > 		Console.WriteLine(x.Name);
> > }
> > 			
> > 
> > The foreach line always gives me the same value which is the last one
> > assigned to c.Name, like so:
> > name 2
> > name 2
> > name 2
> > 
> > I was hoping it would give:
> > name 0
> > name 1
> > name 2
> > 
-- 
George Farris <george@gmsys.com>