Hi Grady,
I checked all code for 'typo errors', and checked for the return type
that shouldn't be there, and this all seemed ok.
But your suggestion brought me to other ideas of solving my problem..
so thanks a lot for your answer !
Cheers,
Chiel
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Chiel.
>
> Could you post some of the code from your <myClass> tag whose
> constructor wasn't being called? afaik, the no-args constructor should
> have been called; is there a possibility of a typo (or incorrect
> capitalization) in the constructor name? Also, make sure that your
> constructor isn't declared with a return type -- otherwise it's not
> really a constructor and won't be called!
>
> Your <mx:Script> code isn't working because all statements have to be
> inside of a method -- try this instead (note the change of "myClass" to
> "MyClass" -- capitalization of class names is strongly encouraged in
> AS):
>
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
> private var myInstance: MyClass;
>
> private function createMyClassObject(): Void
> {
> myInstance = new myClass();
> }
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
>
> Then, to get createMyClassObject() to be called when your form's
> elements are finished being created, add
> creationComplete="createMyClassObject()"
> as an attribute to your root MXML tag.
>
> HTH.
>
> Grady Haynes
> Senior Systems Engineer, IT Services
> 817.252.4891
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of trumpet1971
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:13 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Constructor not called when calling <myClass>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am pretty new at Flex and working on my first project.
> I read some Macromedia tutorials and in one of them they created their
> own CalculatorHandler-class and instantiated this through a
> <CalculatorHandler> tag in the main mxml file.
>
> I tried something similar by building my own class and found out the
> constructor is not called at all when i instantiate it with a <myClass>
> tag.
>
> I need this constructor to be called to initialize some of the
> properties of my class.
> I also tried this code:
>
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
> var myInstance = new myClass();
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
>
> but then i get some compilation error "a class's instance variable may
> not be initialized to compile-time constant expressions".
>
> Can someone tell me how to create an instance of myClass ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Chiel Pauw
> Amsterdam
>
>
>
>
>
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