You can't create methods in abstract classes anyway. Just create a base class
with all of your base methods, override the properties in an inherited class,
and leave the methods alone. Call the base methods from your inherited methods:
string DoSomething (int Parameter)
{
return myBase.DoSomething(Parameter);
}
- Matt Small
>I've been trying to get up to speed on Java. To do this I've been setting
>myself little projects.
>
>I've decided to convert my "AlphaWords" thing-a-ma-jig to Java. This takes
>a string (say "Dog") to one of many phonetic alphabets (for example, using
>the nato alphabet, to "Delta Oscar Golf").
>
>I got all this to work but I thought I'd make it a bit harder. What I want
>to do is make adding alphabets really easy - in a good OO way. Alphabets
>consist of two properties: a name (a string) and a list of 26 words/phrases
>(a string array - I think). The system takes the word list and adds it to
>an array (the indexes representing the ASCII code for the chars, both upper
>and lower case). It then adds a bunch of standard mappings for numbers and
>symbols.
>
>To do this I thinking....
>
>1) Create an abstract "AlphaSet" class that contains all of the standard
>symbols and creates the full array and stuff... then create separate classes
>for each alphabet. I'm having trouble with this tho' - since the only thing
>that changes are properties. You can't pass an instance variable to a
>"super" constructor.
>
>2) Create an "AlphaSet" class that takes a name and a word list and returns
>a usable alphabet set. Then create objects that encapsulate the various
>sets and create and return AlphaSet objects... but I don't know how to do
>that. How do one object return another?
>
>3) Something else? Something gooder?
>
>Obviously I'd like the objects representing the alphabets to be as small and
>simple as possible - you should be able to add new alphabets easily without
>touching any of the other code.
>
>Any thoughts? I'm looking more at this as a "right way to do it" (even if
>it's boringly dull and overkill) in Java rather than solving this specific
>problem.
>
>Jim Davis
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