[Tutor] detecting data member changes

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue Apr 24 18:35:23 CEST 2007


Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> I can see how some people might be surprised to know that changing 
> classinstance.leds automagically sends a communication packet to the wii 
> remote without their knowledge, but if they're aware of the side-effect, 
> it seems to be a more elegant way of doing things to me (with properties 
> vs. an explicit method), at least in this case.

I think so.

>>> Or is it really up to me on how I want to implement it?
>>
>> Of course, it's your code, right?
> Yes, but it's code I plan on open-sourcing, so I'm trying to make it 
> clear what's happening in case I get other developers to help in the 
> future.

Using properties in this way is accepted practice.

Kent


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