I’m trying to write a namespaced API for parts of ChartDirector to make the beast (and autocomplete) more manageable using nested modules with methods (some extends) constant and enumns… It too big a package to remember the details unless you use it everyday and that would help me be more productive in it...
Ideally Christan would do that for the entire product… but given how much work just coming up with a good design, never mind implementing it would be . I don’t see that as a realistic expectation so, I am trying to do it for the parts I expect to use most often... I think I am seeing a bug or more accurately a design bug that IMO should be fixed... I am getting a compile errors where i don’t think there should be any due to that. Here is an example Protected Function Gradient(colors() as Int32, angle as double = 90, scale as double = 1.0, startX as Int32 = 0, startY as Int32 = 0) As Int32 Return CDBaseChartMBS.gradientColor(Colors, angle,Scale,StartX, StartY) ‘ <— Error here End Function in the above, all of it's variants AND several related functions so far (I am sure I have not run into them all yet). The error is: “There is more than one item with this name and it’s not clear to which it refers” I get that also on: CDBaseChartMBS.dashLineColor Obviously I am calling these methods as if they were Shared methods on CDBaseChartMBS.dashLineColor. The docs don’t say if a method is an instance method or shared method on the class… and the error does not say it is in these cases That said If I access it as an Instance method I don’t get the error … But unfortunately that does not fit my architecture. As far as I can see there is no reason such function need to be on an instance. Look at the online CD Docs for ColdFusion such function which don’t need to be on an instance Seem to have their own name space. (though still too many in one - ideally they should be namespaced by function/type) I’m getting specific messages that the following are instances when I don’t think they should be: CDBaseChartMBS.halfColor Christian would it be possible for you to start moving methods that don’t need to be instance methods on the CD classes to Shared Methods? It would make us more able to deal with creating a more manageable API for ourselves. Thanks, - Karen _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list mbsplugins@monkeybreadsoftware.info https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
