//An event hanlder that executes when the user click's on the add button
private void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Creating an instance of the add card form to get input from the user
AddCard addFrm = new AddCard();
//Displaying form and waiting till the user has finished entering the their input
if (addFrm.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
{
// *** Need to add validation ***
//Adding the new card based on the public variables (holds the user's input)
listOfCards.addCard(new Card(addFrm.question, addFrm.answer));
//Adding the new card to the list
listBoxOfQuestions.Items.Add(listOfCards.getNumOfCards() + ". " + addFrm.question);
}
}
//Reads a given file path, and then returns the content as a 'ListOfCards'
public static ListOfCards readFromFile(string fileName)
{
//Reading from the file the user selected using a stream
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(fileName))
{
//Reading file into a string
string json = r.ReadToEnd();
//Converting the json string into a 'Card' object (Using the below card class)
List <tmpCard> tmpListOfCards = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <List <tmpCard> >(json);
//Creating a instance of ListOfCards, so we can return it once the cards have been put in
ListOfCards returnListOfCards = new ListOfCards();
//Putting the 'Cards' from the 'tmpListOfCards' into the 'listOfCards' (Covering from a tmpCard to a Card, foreach element)
foreach (tmpCard c in tmpListOfCards)
{
returnListOfCards.addCard(new Card(c.question, c.answer));
}
//Returning the 'ListOfCard' that was read from the file
return(returnListOfCards);
}
}