Name spaces!!!

[MrPolite]

Well, I just need a little suggestion. Lets say I'm creating a name space "tools". I want to have sections in tools, like "tools.file.{other functions here}" . I was just wondering what's a good way to add categories to my name space? should I make them all classes, modules, or what?

something like this:
Namespace Tools
Class File
......some functions here.......
End Class

Class Graphics
........some functions here.......
End Class
End Namespace

[Cander]

the way you state is probably the best usage for a Namespace.

[MrPolite]

tnx alot, I just didnt know the correct way

[parkes]

I'm just trying these namespaces, just one question, how do you call them in the main program?

[Cander]

Imports namespacename.classname

[MrPolite]

I dunno if this is a good thing to do, but I ended up declaring the functions in my namespace's class as SHARED, so I would be able to use them without declaring an object from that class.
like this:

Namespace Tools
       Class File
                Shared Function ......     
                Shared Function ......     
                Shared Function ......     
       End Class
 
       Class Path
                Shared Function ......     
                Shared Function ......     
                Shared Function ......     
        End Class
End Namespace

Is it a bad idea to declared all the functions as shared?

[Cander]

Well I really depends. the Shared attribute is mostly used for sharing data for the procedure or varaiable across other instances of the class. So if thats what you need it for then i guess there is no problem. Otherwise if you just want all the classes to share a procedure in a single instance, it would probably be best to put them in a public module