[Sadaiy]

Hi, please explain concept of factory to me and how to use the factory implementation, factory class, and how to use the code in the main() and what the purpose is.

[computerfox]

this might shed some light

[Sadaiy]

That link didn't help much. But the link does link to a wikpedia article which is a little more helpfull. I wish there was a tutorial on factories here but there isn't one, i checked. If i ever figure this out I will write a tutorial for you guys.

[pbl]

Sadaiy, on 17 Aug, 2009 - 02:45 PM, said:

That link didn't help much. But the link does link to a wikpedia article which is a little more helpfull. I wish there was a tutorial on factories here but there isn't one, i checked. If i ever figure this out I will write a tutorial for you guys.

Not easy to write a tutorial about factory.

There are many ways to implement them an it all depends of the context.
On some GUI elements a factory cannot be implemented... a Factory for JLabel will not work because a JLabel cannot be in 2 different containers at the same time
A Border can use a Factory because the Border is drawn after the Component it is bordering is drawn and the Border is redraw every time it is not a GUI element by itself.

JOptionPane are kind of a factory because the Pane is displayed and delete right after. There is no neeed to keep it has instance variable of an instance of JOptionPane.

Whenever you will need a Factory, I think you will have already solved your problem and just realized that what you wrote is actually a Factory.

[computerfox]

you can research if there are any version of it, but there's a great reason why PBL said there aren't many, but you can always search.

[skaoth]

Give this a read.

http://books.google....i...ory&f=false

This post has been edited by skaoth: 17 August 2009 - 07:06 PM

[NeoTifa]

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That link didn't help much.

Epic quote is epic. Q.E.D.


That's almost like trying to get someone to write a tutorial on brain surgery.

[pbl]

NeoTifa, on 17 Aug, 2009 - 07:29 PM, said:

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That link didn't help much.

Epic quote is epic. Q.E.D.


That's almost like trying to get someone to write a tutorial on brain surgery.

Another analogy from Neo Tifa that I will remember

[NeoTifa]

There seem to be a lot of those. I just have a gift for expression methinks. I am pretty good at writing poetry, expecially haikus