Is that a space between get and Account? You definitely can't do that, you've named the getter the same as a class name (with a capital letter). If you wanted getAccount that would work though, or get account.
Matt ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shaun Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] is it a Flex compiler bug? Mark Piller wrote: > We ran into something that looks like a compiler bug. Please take a > look at the code below and correct me if I am wrong. The object model > and the class names of the code below may not make any sense, I put it > together to demonstrate the problem. > > Here's a class with a static property: > > package > { > public class StaticClass > { > public static function get Account():String > { > return "my account name"; > } > } > } > That staticfunction looks a bit strange i think. Shouldnt that function be: public static function get account():String{ return "my account name"; } > Here's a class inheriting from the class shown above: > > package > { > public class NonStaticClass extends StaticClass > { > public var _parentAccount:Account; > > public function NonStaticClass() > { > _parentAccount = new Account(); > } > } > } > > And finally the Account class used in the NonStaticClass: > > package > { > public class Account > { > public var name:String; > } > } > > The compiler reports two problems with the code. Both in the > NonStaticClass: > > 1. "Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Account." > This one shows up for the _parentAccount field declaration Isn't that caused by a simple scope problem? > > 2 "Call to a possibly undefined method Account" > This error shows up for the initialization of the _parentAccount field > in the NonStaticClass constructor. see above. > > It looks like there are two problems in the compiler: > 1. Compiler attempts to inherit static declarations > 2. As a result of (1), the compiler gets confused between the static > property and a class type > > Cheers, > Mark > I'm new to Flex and AS so its possible Ive missed the point.. regards, - shaun
