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• IArgument needs a mechanism for identifying the type of argument e.g. File, Path, int double etc Very usful for providing customised GUI functionality
  • Adrian's proposal is below

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      namespace OpenMI.Standard { public enum EArgType { String = 0, // default Bool, Int, Double, Path, // presummed to exist and accessable FilePath, // presummed to exist and accessable PathNew, FilePathNew, XML, // Rob: can be used together with a schema for complex argument data MIME, // Rob: might be useful to pass in images, or text documents, etc. } /// <summary> /// The IArgument interface defines a key - value pair. If the property ReadOnly is /// false the value is editable otherwise it is read-only. /// </summary> public interface IArgument : IDescribable { /// <summary> /// Type that string value represents and can be converted to /// </summary> EArgType ValueType { get; } /// <summary> /// The key (string) in key-value pair. /// </summary> string Key {get;} /// <summary> /// <para>The value (double) in key-value pair.</para> /// /// <para>If the ReadOnly property is true and the property is attempted to be changed /// from outside an exception must be thrown.</para> /// </summary> string Value { get; set; } /// <summary> /// Defines whether the Values property may be edited from outside. /// </summary> bool ReadOnly {get;} } }

Current version:

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java java
public interface IArgument : IDescribable { string Key { get; } string Value { get; set; } bool ReadOnly { get; } }

Proposed change to cover types:

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java java
public interface IArgument : IDescribable { string Key { get; } Type ValueType { get; } object Value { get; set; } bool ReadOnly { get; } }

5. Release 2.0 plan

5.1. Documentation / basic / changes

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