> Im tidying up some code ive written wich atm is all in the main form.
> its working reasonably well, uses zedgraph wich is nice,
> but i need to tidy it up as its become increasingly difficult to work
> with.
> although very fluent in C++ etc, im still geting to grips with c#,
> and I think theres probably a better way to do what im trying todo in c#.

> so far ive managed to seperate all but the data processing into seperate
> clases in seperate files,
> and also a seperate process entirly to collect the data, quite easily,
> but the data processing is the bulkiest part.

> the data consisting of 4 floats arrives at a rate of 5000 per minute,
> and there maybe upto a years worth of data and I am displaying the data in
> real time as it arrives.

> the processing can be split into many data transformations,
> the first stage organises the data into blocks of 10 minutes worth of
> data,
> the next stage does some statistics and converts about 3 seconds of data
> to 1 point.
> although this actually takes many complicated steps, with blocks of blocks
> inbetween.
> the data then gets some more processing such as fft etc.
> the last stage takes blocks of data wich are a whole days worth.
> the graph displays up to the minute statistics as each of the different
> length blocks are processed.

> atm each procesing stage is a function and calls the next function when it
> has assembled a block of data.

> however im hoping to break it down into seperate classes wich are easiy to
> identify
> and change/swap and add extra stages inbetween easily.
> the main task sends the incoming data to the first stage/class
> but im hoping to make it then control the transfer of processed data from
> each stage to the next stage as it becomes ready.

> however there are a lot of data variables that are shared throughout the
> code,
> more than I had first thought wich is making it a bit of a job,
> such as graph pointpairlists etc but c# has no global data as with c++
> there are too many to pass with parameters,
> so I need to make each class able to access the data,
> I could just keep them in the main form and pass a reference to the
> classes,
> but it would be preferable to split the data up and move to the most
> appropriate class wich makes that a bit more dificult for each class to
> access.

> im trying to make it clearer to follow the code, but adding such
> indirection adds a level of complexity.
> its a bit of a job in any language but I was wondering if C# had anything
> fancy to do this sort of thing that i havent come acros yet ? although I
> just realised I could make them static that could work.
> or do partial classes work well ?
> with c# is there a prefered way to control the flow of data from one class
> to another?
> I gues this is like event handling but im not sure this will make things
> clearer or not.

> thanks
> Colin =^.^=