Question

I am not sure what is the correct name for what I am looking for!

What I am trying to do is to make a method to update a status bar text, and color it as red if it is a error message or green if it is a success message:

public void UpdateStatus(string message, MessageType type)
{
      if(type == MessageType.Error)
      {
           statusText.Text = message;
           statusText.ForeColor = Color.Red;
      }

      if(type == MessageType.Success)
      {
           statusText.Text = message;
           statusText.ForeColor = Color.Green;
      }
}

And here is the MessageType

public class MessageType
{
    class Error
    {
       //What to do here?
    }

    class Success
    {
        //What to do here?
    }
}

So how can I define this MessageType class, and how is it called? Interface? Enum? what??

Thanks.

P.S: I know I can just use Color as the second parameter for UpdateStatus method I wrote, but I want to learn how to make it like what I said.

Answer 1

You’re trying to make an enum type:

public enum MessageType {
    Success,
    Error
}