[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20080328-hqm-S Summary: check if override needed on method declarations in classes

[Donald Anderson]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I think here is an example, the problem is a method defined on a  
> view, not a class,
>
>         <view name="menucap" y="${parent._currentattachy == 'top'? - 
> height + 1:parent.height }"...
> ...
> ...
>             <method name="setY" args="y"> <![CDATA[
>                 super.setY(y);
>                 if ( y < 0 ) {
>                     this.setResourceNumber(1);
>                 } else {
>                     this.setResourceNumber(2);
>                 }
>              ]]>
>
> generates a function expression in a hash table, with the "override"  
> keyword just hanging in there in the attrs list, causing a parser  
> error
>
>
>
> }, setY:  override function setY(  y) {
>
>
> So we need to suppress this on methods that are declared on views.

You're talking about what the tag compiler emits, right?

> Although in this case we're screwed because
> it calls super.setY, so we really need to make this a singleton  
> class...

What's the rule?  Cannot call super methods when declaring an event  
method, or what?


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