btw one more compilaltion error circumventing hack that seems to work:
[yourObj][0]
;-S
greetz
JC
On 7/24/07, Danny Kodicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > > That's a fair point. It's more the principle of the thing - it was
> > > frustrating not to be *able* to make it strict. But yes, lea
> That's a fair point. It's more the principle of the thing - it was
> frustrating not to be *able* to make it strict. But yes, leaving off
> the :Object would be a better solution.
Well, you can't do argument overloading in AS2 (nor AS3, I believe), so
you can't have pure polymorphism in Flas
> That's a fair point. It's more the principle of the thing - it was
> frustrating not to be *able* to make it strict. But yes, leaving off
> the :Object would be a better solution.
Well, you can't do argument overloading in AS2 (nor AS3, I believe), so
you can't have pure polymorphism in Flash
You're "hacking" it either way. This one function is not going to cause
coder confusion. You're leaving the type off so you can pass any type.
Considering you type everything else, it's pretty obvious to anyone who
looks at it what's going on.
Adding extra lines of code that put a paramete
In the more general case, I disagree that AS2 gains nothing from
type-checking. But you weren't being general. :-)
I thought I was, but I realize now that I made a flawed assumption. You
don't know my coding practices and how I write everything as strict as I
can and use MTASC for compiling,
You're "hacking" it either way. This one function is not going to cause
coder confusion. You're leaving the type off so you can pass any type.
Considering you type everything else, it's pretty obvious to anyone
who looks at it what's going on.
Adding extra lines of code that put a parameter
Steven,
I do see what you're getting at - having reviewed Danny's code, in
this instance, you're right (and I was being too general and should
have paid more attention!).
In the more general case, I disagree that AS2 gains nothing from
type-checking. But you weren't being general. :-)
Ian
On
On 7/23/07, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you look at it objectively, you're adding extra lines of code for no
reason. AS2 has absolutely no gains from strict typing.
The compiled code doesn't gain anything - but if (like me) you're
writing code libraries to
be used by other prog
> The solution I used works much the same way as Ian's: essentially it
takes
> advantage of the fact that Flash's compiler isn't able to check the
object
> type of sub-items of an object or array, so it ignores them (and assumes
> you've done your job correctly).
Danny,
It seems to me if you'r
Danny,
You can use an Array method like slice() or concat([]), which will create a
duplicate of ur original array, and pass that to your function.
So your code would become:
function generic(tObj:Object) {
if (tObj instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(tObj.slice())
} else {
doSomethingElse()
}
> Danny,
>
> I'm still not entirely clear on what you're attempting to do.
> Can you show more code to give us a bigger picture?
Thanks to everyone for suggestions and comments. Many of them, I suspect,
would suffer from the same problem, though. For Steven, here's the problem
in a bit more de
fine.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mark
Hawley
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:44 PM
To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com
Subject: Re: RE: [Flashcoders] Casting to Array
David's suggestion doesn't actually cast to arra
Hi Danny,
its an annoying issue and a subtle difference between the flash ide and
mtasc as well.
When compiling in mtasc, Array(myObject) becomes a regular cast and not the
freakish thing its in the Flash IDE:).
greetz
JC
On 7/20/07, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Danny,
I'm still
Date:Friday, July 20, 2007, 3:03:55 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Casting to Array
--===--
I'm trying to do something like this:
if (a instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(a)
}
the doMyArrayFunction expects an Array obje
Danny,
I'm still not entirely clear on what you're attempting to do. Can you
show more code to give us a bigger picture?
Danny Kodicek wrote:
I'm trying to do something like this:
if (a instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(a)
}
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Flashcoder
anny Kodicek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/07/20 Fri AM 10:07:47 CDT
> To:
> Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Casting to Array
>
> > As it's AS2, you might think about making it so
> > doMyArrayFunction will not expect an array, but will take anything
- Original Message -
From: "Danny Kodicek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: [Flashcoders] Casting to Array
I'm trying to do something like this:
if (a instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(a)
}
the doMyArrayFunction expect
Danny,
The shortest way I found of doing it is:
var b:Array={arr:a}.arr;
i.e. make it a property of an object, then unbox it again.
Silly, but works syntactically. I'd love to see a shorter way.
In AS3, Array(x) as an array creator still exists - you get around it
using the new 'as' operator:
> As it's AS2, you might think about making it so
> doMyArrayFunction will not expect an array, but will take anything:
>
> class ArrayTest {
>
> public function ArrayTest(a) {
> trace(a[0]);
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> new ArrayTest([1,2,3,4]);
>
> works fine.
As it's AS2, you might think about making it so doMyArrayFunction will
not expect an array, but will take anything:
class ArrayTest {
public function ArrayTest(a) {
trace(a[0]);
}
}
new ArrayTest([1,2,3,4]);
works fine.
Jim Kremens
_
: [Flashcoders] Casting to Array
I'm trying to do something like this:
if (a instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(a)
}
the doMyArrayFunction expects an Array object, so this throws an error. What
I would normally do in this case is cast the object to the class I'm
expecting, but unfortunate
I'm trying to do something like this:
if (a instanceof Array) {
doMyArrayFunction(a)
}
the doMyArrayFunction expects an Array object, so this throws an error. What
I would normally do in this case is cast the object to the class I'm
expecting, but unfortunately Array(a) doesn't leave a unchanged,
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