Comments on: Multiple Inheritance in Flex

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:20:28 +0000

Yeah… that is a mis-leading title, sorry about that. I was so excited I found something new, I just proof-read my post, not the title. My bad.

Interfaces are actually easy:

Where the ISomeInterface is your interface class name.

By: Evert

Evert — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:14:27 +0000

Bokel’s point was, and I agree with him is that multiple inheritance is a common name in programming for something, well… this is not =)

I (and a lot of others) consider multiple inheritance a Bad Thing, and I was suprised to read that actionscript would support it, but the title of this post is misleading.

Congratz on finding out how usual class inheritance really works though =) Have you checked out intefaces yet?

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:01:54 +0000

Actually, my title had 2 meanings. First, how to inherit from MXML components you make, and secondly, using mixins, you can in face emulate extending multiple classes. The problem is, mixins tend to all assault your class at once, hence it being better to use mixins on a base class, and extend that. So, technically, yes, you are extending 1 base class, but they still allow you to utilize multiple classes in a way.

Know how to do this in AS3 yet?

By: bokel

bokel — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:57:19 +0000

Multiple inheritance is the common term for beeing able to inherit from multiple classes at once. Only a few languages support this, like C++ for example. What you do here is normal inheritance. I’m not sure, if there is another name for it.

But anyway, it’s always a great feeling to learn something new, isn’t it?
Cheers,
r.