[MonoDevelop] class wizard

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Feb 4, 2008 2:46 AM, olivier dufour <olivier.duff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow,
>
>  thanks for all these feedback ;)
>
>  So, first issue will be modifiers each language have his own keywords and I
> do not know if all language support all modifiers of csharp (I do not think
> so). So, I will have to do a function in each language binding to get the
> list of grouped modifier for radio button (public,private,protected,
> internal) and single modifier for checkbox ( static,sealed, partial,
> abstract, unsafe).
>  But we have some rules here between single modifiers.(abstract and sealed
> for example)
> And maybe some language have more than one group of modifier.

Well, a lot of these things are fundamental to .NET. if you generate
the class using CodeDOM, the language's code generator should sort
things out.

>  And if we do what is my next question, we will have issue because some
> modifier is not allowed with structure or interface (static for example). I
> do not think it is a good idea... because will add a lot of issue and if we
> add too much thing it will become too complexe.
>
>  Do we need something to say class, structure or interface or we only
> provide something for class?

Is this a struct and interface designer too? I guess there's no reason
why it couldn't be a struct designer, but I think that there is little
overlap with interfaces.

>  So language binding class willl have GetModifiers and CheckModifier which
> will avoid to break modifier linked rules.

I'm pretty sure CodeDOM allows you to query for supported features.

>
>  Else I can limit the list of modifier to the more common but it lead to
> another question which one?....
>
>  For auto-complete box great idea.
>
>  A treeview seems to be more adapted to what we need for member to be
> overriden.
>
>  For the multi page, I am not sure... I am OK that this can be usefull
> outside but not sure because I really prefer to have all screen. Anyway, I
> will see if all can be in the form else I will see if we do 4 windows with a
> button next/previous or if I do tabs (what do you prefer).


Well, my main point with the multi-page is that many of the steps can
be re-used independently of the class wizard.


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Michael Hutchinson
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