I hadn't heard of anyone doing it before so it was possible there was a bug in there somewhere, and it didn't seem necessary as you ended up anyway.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mayur Bais Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:04 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] error while extending dictionary error .. :) :) sure ...there is nothing that I could not do without extending dictionary... with singleTon , I wanted to have the only once reference across the application .. I tried once extending it..and ran into a problem..and then solved it by not sub classing it (directly returning).. But the curiosity was there in my mind ..hence put up the question here... Here is the class which i had tried extending dictionary: (though it did not worked...) package ms.imfusion.model { import flash.utils.Dictionary; import ms.imfusion.Constants; public class MemberList extend dictionary { private static var instance:MemberList; // instance of self. /** * property memberList of type Dictionary */ public var memberList:Dictionary; /** * constructor */ public function MemberList(){ super(); } /** * Returns the reference to self */ public static function getInstance():MemberList { if(instance == null){ instance = new MemberList(); } return instance; } /** * Append to memeberlist * @param tempMember * @returns void */ public function appendtomemelist(tempMember:MemberObject):void { var userId:int = tempMember.userId; memberList[userId] = tempMember; } /** * Creating memberlist * @param obj from server * creates MemberObject object and adds to memberlist dictionary * @returns void */ public function addToMemberlist(obj:Object):void { for(var i:int=0;i<obj.length;i++) { var tempMember:MemberObject = new MemberObject() tempMember.fill(obj[i]); appendtomemelist(tempMember); } } /** *Set instance of memberList null on logout */ public static function setInstanceNull():void{ instance = null; // clear mermber information in the current session } } } On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: If it's not giving away any business secrets, why on earth would you want to subclass Dictionary? Flex already has some sort of built in support for singletons, I believe. -J On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Mayur Bais <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Any specific reason why we should not extend dictionary..? I got it working by writing one getter method in the class which returned dictionary... just curious........ On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Don't extend dictionary, just return a Dictionary. ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Mayur Bais Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [flexcoders] error while extending dictionary error .. Hi all, I have class extending a dictionary class: public class mydict extends Dictionary { public static instance:mydict // done to maintain singleton class function mydict (){ super(); } public static funtion getInstance():mydict { return instance; } function addTodict(id:int,val:String):void{ mydict [id] = val // its giving me error here...can not create proeprty 26..(if id was 26..) on mydict } } Any work around?? Regards Mayur -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
