Help with creating a method

[Maciek]

I want to create a method, let say

public void DrawAlotOfThings(...      )
{
DrawText(tag, false, text, barsAgo, price, 0, Color.Black, new Font("Arial", 8), StringAlignment.Far, Color.Empty, Color.Empty, 0);
}

How can I make something like

DrawAlotOfThings(Far, Black)

and have the DrawText to get Color.Black and StringAlignment.Far

Im not sure how to set this up. I know how to do it with strings and ints, but not with things like Color.Black and StringAlignment.Far.

[Zeos6]

They are simply parameters you pass in.

In the variables section set

private Color textColor = Color.Black;

Then create a property for the text color:
[Description("Text Color.")]
[Category("Colors")]
[Gui.Design.DisplayName("The color of the text.")]
public Color TextColor
{
get { return textColor; }
set { textColor = value; }
}

[Browsable(false)]
public string TextColorSerialize
{
get { return Gui.Design.SerializableColor.ToString(textColor); }
set { textColor = Gui.Design.SerializableColor.FromString(value); }
}

The alignment is set up as an enum type.

After the Using Declarations section and BEFORE the namespace define your enums:

public enum StringAlignment { Near, Far, Center };

In the variables section define the variable for the alignment

private StringAlignment myStringAlignment = StringAlignment.Far;
and pass the myStringAlignment as a parameter to your method.

DrawAlotOfThings(myStringAlignment, textColor);

Note that you also need to create it as a property:

[Description("String Alignment.")]
[GridCategory("Strings")]
[Gui.Design.DisplayNameAttribute("String Alignment")]
public StringAlignment MySringAlignment
{
get { return myStringAlignment; }
set { myStringAlignment = value; }
}

And set up the Draw() method as:

DrawALotOfThing(StringAlignment methodStringAlignment, Color methodColor)
{
//do calculations
}

and call the method as
DrawALotOfThings(mystringAlignment, text Color);