Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Adding Custom Events: SlideShow

The following example is a "slide show" component into which a number of images can be loaded and then displayed in sequence. The control is called SlideShow. It contains two private variables: pics to hold an ArrayList object containing Image references, and pos to hold the current position in the slide show.

public class SlideShow : System.Windows.Forms.Control
{
    private ArrayList              pics;
    private int                    pos;
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}

These variables are given suitable initial values in the control’s constructor.

public SlideShow()
{
    pics = new ArrayList();
    pos  = 0;
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}

The public method AddImage allows the user of the control to add an image reference, which is added to the list held ...