On Sep 22, 2006, at 7:22 PM, Craig Hoyt wrote:
Thanks for the reply and thanks for pointing out one more area I
didn't know existed. Extends can be very useful but in this case
I'm having a hard time seeing where there is an advantage to this
over just writing my own from scratch. Seems to me the routine is
the same, camping it on an RB existing method just seems a waste of
time. Is there a difference between;
c=f.VisibleCount // Using Extends
or
c=GetVFCount (f) // Method to scan a folder & return visible items
Am I missing something vital with extends or is just to make the
code pretty?
It is mostly to make the code look pretty. You can't do anything
with extends that you cannot do in a regular method, but it makes it
look like the method really belongs to the class (shorter code, and
more direct).
I took the second approach before the replies came in. It works for
me, all 48 folders! - yeah, that's why I asked if there were any
alternatives. Took me longer to change all the lines for .Count
than it did to write the method to scan the folders.
Did you know there are at least three ways to set a file to be
invisible in OS X? Take a look at this post here:
http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-nug/
2004-12/msg00244.html
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