RE: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-03-09 Thread Gordon Smith
. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danko Kozar Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 1:52 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex? Jason

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-03-08 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 08 Mar 2007, Danko Kozar wrote: Private methods and variables drive me nuts.. When I did Java, I always made my private variables 'protected', but the real Java guys tole me that was a bad idea for some reason. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to economically enhance user-centric

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Hawryluk
Kozar Envoyé : jeudi 8 mars 2007 11:48 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex? Private methods and variables drive me nuts.. For example, I'd like to make a simple DataGrid change: make headers clickable

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Hawryluk
PROTECTED] la part de Danko Kozar Envoyé : jeudi 8 mars 2007 11:48 À : flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Objet : [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex? Private methods and variables drive me nuts.. For example, I'd like to make a simple DataGrid

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 22 Feb 2007, Paul DeCoursey wrote: support our REST based Web Services. But also URLRequest is a final class and cannot be extended. So you extend the parent, and cut and paste most of the code. Final isn't the end of the world :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to continuously drive

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-02-22 Thread Paul J DeCoursey
Tom Chiverton wrote: On Thursday 22 Feb 2007, Paul DeCoursey wrote: support our REST based Web Services. But also URLRequest is a final class and cannot be extended. So you extend the parent, and cut and paste most of the code. Final isn't the end of the world :-) In this

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-02-22 Thread EECOLOR
you need access to a handful of private variables and functions in the parent class I have extended quite some components aswell. What i found out however, was that in the en i most of the time did not need those private variables and methods. At the end of a day full of fiddling i found a

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 22 Feb 2007, Paul J DeCoursey wrote: In this case it is since the source for URLRequest is not available, URLRequest is a flash class not a mx class. To make it work we would need to implement the entire HTTP client stack using sockets. Not a small undertaking. *ahh* :-) --

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex?

2007-02-22 Thread Doug McCune
If you want to say that we shouldn't rely on needing access to any private variables, it's only a small difference to say it's OK to rely on mx_internal variables. The internal vars are marked as such because they might change in future releases. So if the objection is that your code might break