Question

Building my baseclasses for user interface controls is getting there. I have command buttons derived with custom font assignment and put on a form, all is fine… However, identical code for the read-only property Font of a textbox is NOT recognized properly on the same form. It is ONLY taking the setting of the FORM and disregarding its own Font declaration.

public class MyTextbox : TextBox {     [ReadOnly(true)]     public override Font Font     { get { return new               Font( 'Courier New', 12f, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Point );            }      } } 

Answer 1

With a help from ‘nobugz’ (Thanks), I found this same failure when doing a ComboBox too. My result was the following…

My getter

get { return new Font( ... ); } 

However, in nobugz response, something wasn’t working quite right with the compiler, so in the constructor of the class

clas MyTextbox... {    public MyTextbox()    {       // it defaults itself from its own read-only font 'new' object instance and works       base.Font = Font;    } }