FINALLY found a use of interfaces http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/forum/t-760022/finally-found-a-use-of-interfaces Posts in the discussion thread "FINALLY found a use of interfaces" Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:48:08 +0000 http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/forum/t-760022#post-1931171 FINALLY found a use for interfaces http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/forum/t-760022/finally-found-a-use-of-interfaces#post-1931171 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:00:03 +0000 Emblis 1671135 So far in my experience I have not had any use of interfaces in c#. Mostly due to the fact that I can easily achieve what I want by using overloading or delegates.

For the past week I have been working hard to extend my basic XNA User Interface (not to be confused with c# interface) for more functionality. My biggest problem was that I wanted a tooltip window, one of those small things that appears when you hover your mouse over something and extra info appears. This proved to be a major pain since I wanted everything in my game to support this, even classes with nothing in common.

And suddenly I find out that I can do

if (ThisObject is ItooltipInterface) { //Run code to generate tooltip box for ThisObject }

I know it is a bit stupid posting something simple like this, but it has been a long time since I had a real "Eureka!" with c# and it saved me allot of headaches.

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