A class with only static members

[Simon Harvey]

Hi everyone,

I have a class that I want to use to store application state information. I
was thinking that I would probably want to make all the information static
in that class because the application should only have one copy of
application information.

First Question:
Is this the right sort of scenario to use a static class? Or should I make
an object and use a Singleton pattern? Would there be an advantage to that?

My second question is how to initialise this static state class.

Normally I would just use the new operator and call the objects contructor,
passing in any appropriate data. However, given that I'm not instantiating
an object, I can't do that.
So I'm not sure how to initialise the class. The actual class is called
StateManager. What I need to be able to do is something like:

StateManager.static_constructor(state_data);

I'm not sure how to achieve that effect though.

Thanks everyone

Take care

Simon

[Tu-Thach]

Does not matter if you want to use static or singleton as
long as you are consitent with what you use.

You will not be able to invoke a static constructor the
way you wanted. You can have a regular constructor for
the class though. Or you can have static initializer.

public class YourClass
{
static YourClass()
{
// Put your init code here.
}
}

Tu-Thach

-----Original Message-----
Hi everyone,

I have a class that I want to use to store application state information. Iwas thinking that I would probably want to make all the information staticin that class because the application should only have one copy ofapplication information.

First Question:
Is this the right sort of scenario to use a static class? Or should I makean object and use a Singleton pattern? Would there be an advantage to that?
My second question is how to initialise this static state class.
Normally I would just use the new operator and call the objects contructor,passing in any appropriate data. However, given that I'm not instantiatingan object, I can't do that.
So I'm not sure how to initialise the class. The actual class is calledStateManager. What I need to be able to do is something like:
StateManager.static_constructor(state_data);

I'm not sure how to achieve that effect though.

Thanks everyone

Take care

Simon
.