Sounds to me like you are extending the wrong class. But I see your point, it sounds like an edge case however. Can anyone provide any real world examples?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Doug McCune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've often run into wanting to call grandParent.super() instead of > parent.super(), even when parent.super() will do a call to grandParent.super() > anyway. The reason for this is to override parent.super while preserving the > functionality of grandParent.super. For example, if you're overriding > updateDisplayList or createChildren, you've got to call > super.updateDisplayList or super.createChildren, but maybe I want to > override (and by that I mean NOT run the code in) > parent.updateDisplayList(which seems to make since seeing as I am > using the word 'override'...). But > if I override updateDisplayList, then at some point in my method I've got to > call super.updateDisplayList to get anything to work. But that means I'm > going to run all the code in super.updateDisplayList, when in reality I just > want to run the code in grandParent.updateDisplayList. > > So just my two cents, I think there are very good reasons to want to make a > call straight to grandParent.super(). I've wanted to do it a few times > myself and I don't think it should just be chalked up to "no, that's bad > OOP". > > Doug > > > > > On 3/1/07, Paul DeCoursey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why? I can't think of a single reason to want to do that. If you > > really wanted to do that then you should be extending the grandparent > > class. Also are you sure that the parent class is not calling super? > > generally you do that unless you don't want that functionality. > > > > Paul > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Anthony > > Lee" <anthony.f.lee@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Sorry for the lame AS questions, but can anyone tell me how to call > > > the super method of the class I'm extending? ie. the grandparent and > > > not the parent. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > tonio > > > > > > > > > >
