To achieve this I have an ECO class ApplicationSettings which is a singleton which identifies the units to use. I then have 2 properties for each value....
InternalLandingDistance
DisplayLandingDistance
The idea is that I should never expose Internal* properties in the GUI but display their corresponding Display* property instead. The Display* property will read/write the Internal* property and perform some kind of conversion on it.
If I always store my values using the unit with the highest accuracy (Distance = feet, Depth = millimetres, Weight = Pounds, Speed = KPH) then I just need to convert them by the correct factor when reading/writing from the Display* properties.
This isn't rocket science, obviously I can just implement these as reverse derived attributes right? The problem with this is that I am using a new EcoSpace per form, so if someone changes the ApplicationSettings.DistanceMeasurement in one EcoSpace my derived member has no way of knowing unless I want to put in synchronisation.
Well, my app can work stand-alone or on a network. I don't want to over complicate things, so what I decided I needed was a reverse derived property with no subscriptions + caching, but that just isn't possible.
Well, actually, it is. It's just so obvious! Instead of marking my members Derived I marked them as Transient and HasUserCode. I implement the code like so.....
public float DisplayLandingDistance
{
get
{
return ConvertDistanceToDisplay(InternalLandingDistance);
#if NeverDoThis
{EcoModeler generated code here}
#endif
}
set
{
InternalLandingDistance = ConvertDistanceToInternal(value);
#if NeverDoThis
{EcoModeler generated code here}
#endif
}
}
Now my values will be calculated every time they are read instead of being cached. The "#if NeverDoThis" bit is there so that EcoModeler will always put its auto-generated accessor code within a region that never executes. I could just put a "return" above it, but I don't like those "Unreachable code detected" warnings!
