Flash ActionScript Inheritance
Posted by Helmut | Filed under FlashMX
So I am trying to figure out the following piece of code:
ActionScript:
- <pre>in Application.as
- import Log;
- class Application
- {
- private var _log:Log; // force mtasc to compile Log.as
- function Application(createdBy)
- {
- // Re-assigment of _root to Application instance
- createdBy.__proto__ = this.__proto__;
- createdBy.__constructor__ = Application;
- this = createdBy;
- setup();
- }
- public function setup()
- {
- TRACE("hello world");
- }
- public static function main(createdBy:MovieClip)
- {
- var app = new Application(createdBy);
- }
- }; // end of class</pre>
found here:
http://www.osflash.org/pipermail/osflash_osflash.org/2005-August/002165.html
So far I have been recommended to read the following article:
http://www.quantumwave.com/flash/inheritance.html
The article well covers the subject of inheritance in Flash 5 and MX. My only concern is that as the article points out using inheritance in this way it will be only an overload to the application.
..to be continued
