[RESOLVED] question about classes

[tr333]

if i have a class that contains a hashtable, is it possible to modify the class to access the hashtable members directly (eg. classname["value"]) instead of classname.hashtable["value"]?

[DeadEyes]

I don't really see the point but something like this will work for reading value you can add the set yourself.

class MainClass
	{
		private Hashtable tbl = new Hashtable();
		
		public MainClass()
		{
			tbl.Add("one","number one");
		}
		
		public object this[object key]
		{
			get{return tbl[key];}
		}
		
		public static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			MainClass cls = new MainClass();
			Console.WriteLine(cls["one"].ToString());
		}
		
		
	}

[tr333]

thanks for the help... will try it tomorrow when i get time.

FYI, i am creating a general class that stores application preferences so i thought this would be a good thing to implement for it. otherwise i would have to create individual properties for accessing each preference.