.NET Design Patterns

The observer pattern for UI events

We will use the GoF observer pattern to handle UI events in an automatic fashion. The moment an expression gets changed in the textbox, the window should get a notification about it, and if the expression is valid, the resulting expression will be rendered on the screen.

Note

While implementing the observer pattern, we have two classes-the Subject class, which represents the event source, and the Observer class, which is a list of observers (observer who are interested in listening to the event. Whenever there is a change in the text, the Subject class which represents the event source sends notification to all the sinks who have subscribed to the event.

We have already mentioned that in the case of the observer ...