RE: Java Question on Inheritance

2001-03-22 Thread Michael Wentzel
Ultimately, I want to get the thumb of this Image and convert it to a URL. I want to be able to do this efficiently and use something like the following syntax. myImage.getThumb().toURL() Is this possible? Yes, but getThumb() must return a subclass of SuperOne. --- Michael Wentzel

RE: Java Question on Inheritance

2001-03-22 Thread Grewal, Gary
No. The way you are doing means you are calling .toURL() method on what ever is returned by the method getThumb(). Unless getThumb returns a type of Object of type SuperOne or it's sub-class you cannot call this method and you should see a compile time error. What you can do is URL url

Re: Java Question on Inheritance

2001-03-22 Thread Ryan
} -ryan - Original Message - From: "Michael Wentzel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:32 AM Subject: RE: Java Question on Inheritance Ultimately, I want to get the thumb of this Image and convert it to a URL. I want to be able to

RE: Java Question on Inheritance

2001-03-22 Thread Michael Wentzel
Then this is my next problem. I currently have getThumb() returning an Image object. The part where I am stuck at is what to do in the toURL() method. my mock getThumb() method currently looks something like public Image getThumb(){ this.iValue = "/home/thumbs"; return this; }

Re: Java Question on Inheritance

2001-03-22 Thread William Brogden
Ryan wrote: Then this is my next problem. I currently have getThumb() returning an Image object. The part where I am stuck at is what to do in the toURL() method. my mock getThumb() method currently looks something like public Image getThumb(){ this.iValue = "/home/thumbs";