Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Widget constructor

[Dan S. <dy...@fu...>]

Just make your widget constructor call the DynLayer as a method:

function widget(arguments) {
   this.DynLayer = DynLayer
   this.Dynlayer(arguments)
}
widget.prototype = new DynLayer

Dan

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:39:05AM +0100, Bartek wrote:
> I was wondering whether it is a good idea to have some inheritible constructor functionality for DynLayer.
> I want to be able to create a widget object that extends the DynLayer and inherits its initialization, i.e so I wouldn't have to rewrite the initialization code for the widget but instead do something like this:
> 
> ------------------------------------------
> 
> function WidgetLayer(){
>     this.construct(arguments)
> }
> WidgetLayer.prototype=new DynLayer
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and it would look something like this for dynlayer:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> function DynLayer(){ this.construct(arguments) }
> DynLayer.prototype.construct=function(){
>      alert()
>      var a=arguments
>      if (a.length==1 && a[0]!=null && typeof(a[0])=="object") this.setStyle(a[0])
>      else {
>          this.id=a[0]||"JSDynLayer"+(DynLayer.nullCount++)
>          this.x=a[1]||0
>           .......etc...
>     }
> }
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I am trying to implent this as I write, to test it out, and I'm having some problems.
> Maybe there is a better way of doing this... If so , please let me know. :)
> Or am I on the right track?
> 
> 
> /Bart