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Flash ActionScript Inheritance

Posted by Helmut Granda | 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

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