How are you setting the value of time_alert_dialogs_remain_on_screen?
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:59 PM, George Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I want the value to come from a property on a Settings class that gets
> passed around to a related group of objects. I would prefer the
> Settings class to be strongly typed. It would seem to me like that's
> a pretty common way of doing things, if I'm going about it the wrong
> way by all means tell me, since I'm just pulling this stuff out of my
> butt.
>
> On a side note, I'm also running into this issue when the constructor
> takes an Int32 and, I assume I will run into it with any non-reference
> object.
>
> Without digging into the code, it seems like the input of a parameter
> is assumed to be either a reference type or a string and no attempt at
> casting is done. I would be surprised if someone hasn't run into this
> annoyance before and written a module to solve it so if any can point
> me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> On Oct 13, 3:51 pm, "Shawn Hinsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've had luck with creating timestamps using the format "HH:MM:SS" in
>> the component parameter configuration, but I've never tried that
>> approach. Do you need to have a separate component for the timespan?
>> You could put the value in a property if it's reused.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:07 PM, George Mauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a variety of classes in my project that take a TimeSpan in the
>> > constructor which is to be provided from a settings class. So as an
>> > example, I have things wired as follows
>>
>> > <component id="timed_alert_dialog"
>> >
>> > service="DriverInterface2.UI.Presentation.UIInterfaces.ITimedDialog,
>> > DriverInterface2.UI.Presentation"
>> > type="DriverInterface2.UI.WinForms.Dialogs.AlertDialog,
>> > DriverInterface2.UI.WinForms">
>> > <parameters><timespan>${time_alert_dialogs_remain_on_screen}</
>> > timespan></parameters>
>> > </component>
>>
>> > <component id="time_alert_dialogs_remain_on_screen"
>> > type="System.TimeSpan"
>> > factoryId="global_settings"
>> > factoryCreate="get_TimeAlertDialogsRemainOnScreen" />
>>
>> > But when I try to resolve timed_alert_dialog I get the following
>> > error:
>> > {"Could not convert from '${time_alert_dialogs_remain_on_screen}' to
>> > System.TimeSpan"}
>> > Inner Exception: {"Input string was not in a correct format."}
>>
>> > Some things I have learned while experimenting:
>> > I can resolve time_alert_dialogs_remain_on_screen (the TimeSpan)
>> > properly with no problem.
>> > If I change the constructor to take an object that is later cast to a
>> > TimeSpan then it works fine also.
>>
>> > This last point indicates an annoying yet quick way to resolve the
>> > situation which is for obvious reasons, less than ideal. What is the
>> > cause of the problem and is there any way I can resolve it for real?
>>
>> > Thanks a lot,
>> > George Mauer
> >
>
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