kiplring wrote:
So I want to hide all things except the one property
"inputWindow.Message".
How can I do it?
One way that hasn't been mentioned yet is with interfaces. Create an
interface with the one method, "Message", that you want. Then have your
form implement that interface. Whoever is using this class can just
request an instance of this interface via a factory method or something.
As a bonus (maybe) you could always cast to a Form if you needed the
extra properties. The code would look something like this (untested and
uncompiled, but you should get the point):
public interface IMessage
{
string Message{ get; set; }
}
public class InputWindow: Windows.Forms.Form, IMessage
{
...
string Message
{
//implement property here...
}
}
public class InputWindowFactory
{
public static IMessage GetInputWindow()
{
return new InputWindow();
}
}
Then just do this to use the form with one visible property:
IMessage MyInputWindow = InputWindowFactory.GetInputWindow();
HTH,
Gabe
