How to name an subclass that add a minor, detailed thing?
- by Louis Rhys
What is the most concise (yet descriptive) way of naming a subclass that only add a specific minor thing to the parent? I encountered this case a lot in WPF, where sometime I have to add a small functionality to an out-of-the-box control for specific cases.
Example: TreeView doesn't change the SelectedItem on right-click, but I have to make one that does in my application.
Some possible names are
TreeViewThatChangesSelectedItemOnRightClick (way too wordy and
maybe difficult to read because there is so many words concantenated
together)
TreeView_SelectedItemChangesOnRightClick (slightly
more readable, but still too wordy and the underscore also breaks the normal
convention for class names)
TreeViewThatChangesSIOnRC (non-obvious
acronym),
ExtendedTreeView (more concise, but doesn't describe what
it is doing. Besides, I already found a class called this in the
library, that I don't want to use/modify in my application).
LouisTreeView, MyTreeView, etc. (doesn't describe what it is doing).
It seems that I can't find a name which sounds right. What do you do in situation like this?
