Actually the method appears to be createChildren -- that is, not makeChild. (As a parent myself, I appreciate the difference).
Anyway, it's discussed in the Developer's Guide here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps-latest/docs/guide/class- inheritance.html#d0e17877 Is there anything useful I can say about when to use this method versus using the "new" constructor function? Tucker says that "we need to clean up this interface". Is there a chance that it will be changed for 4.0? If so, I'll leave it alone for now. If not I would like to clear this up, as there are a few related bugs that I would like to close out. Thanks jrs On Apr 12, 2006, at 7:33 AM, P T Withington wrote: > We really need to clean up this interface. There is another interface > LzNode.makeChild, which is an alternative. Neither is very pretty. > > On 2006-04-11, at 09:46 EDT, John Sundman wrote: > >> I've been paying attention to this thread. >> >> The fine art of creating new classes in script is, in fact, not very >> well explained in Developer's Guide. I have a JIRA task against this, >> and hope to get to it next month. >> >> In the meantime I'm happy that people are finding the information they >> need through the limited documentaton that is available and with the >> help of the community. >> >> jrs >> >> On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Dan Stowell wrote: >> >>>> (For the interested newbies like myself: classes have a constructor >>>> that you >>>> can use to specify the parent, and the attributes, so when I changed >>>> my call to: >>>> var v = new hrule(parent, {width: this.parent.width, >>>> bgcolor: this.linecolor}); >>>> it was happy.) >>> >>> I should have read all your posts before replying to the first. John, >>> our doc guy, will be happy that you found the answer to your >>> question. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Laszlo-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
