Command Pattern
"Encapsulate a request as an object, thereby letting you parameterize clients with different requests, queue or log requests, and support undoable operations. "
A VB example of the Command Pattern
A lot of the new multimedia keyboards have extra buttons on them for opening up a web browser, an mp3 player etc. we can use the Command pattern to program them so that the keybaord need not know what application it is executing.
' This is the Invoker
Public Class MultiMediaKeyBoard
' This array holds commands for the buttons
' of our keyboard
Private _ButtonSlots As New ArrayList(2)
Public Sub Main()
' Set up the commands to corresponding keyboard
' buttons.
Dim aWebBrowser As New WebBrowser
_ButtonSlots(0) = New WebBrowserCommand(aWebBrowser)
Dim aWordProcessor As New WordProcessor
_ButtonSlots(1) = New WordProcessorCommand(aWordProcessor)
End Sub
Public Sub MediaButtonPushed(ByVal buttonNumber As Integer)
' When a button is clicked on the keyboard its API can send us the
' buttons ID. We can then call the execute method of the class in the
' corresponding
CType(_ButtonSlots(buttonNumber), ICommand).execute()
End Sub
End Class
Public Interface ICommand
Sub execute()
End Interface
' The receiver
Public Class WebBrowser
Public Sub OpenWebBrowser()
' Code to open a web browser
End Sub
End Class
' The concrete command class
Public Class WebBrowserCommand
Implements ICommand
Private _WebBrowser As WebBrowser
Public Sub New(ByVal WebBrowser As WebBrowser)
_WebBrowser = WebBrowser
End Sub
Public Sub execute() Implements ICommand.execute
_WebBrowser.OpenWebBrowser()
End Sub
End Class
' The receiver
Public Class WordProcessor
Public Sub OpenWordProcessor()
' Code to open a word processor
End Sub
End Class
' The concrete command class
Public Class WordProcessorCommand
Implements ICommand
Private _WordProcessor As WordProcessor
Public Sub New(ByVal WordProcessor As WordProcessor)
_WordProcessor = WordProcessor
End Sub
Public Sub execute() Implements ICommand.execute
_WordProcessor.OpenWordProcessor()
End Sub
End Class
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