New method overload problem

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Shagwana

(Posted 2011) [#1]

What could I be doing wrong?

Import mojo

Class BaseClass 
  Field ParentThing:AppTest
  Method new(a:AppTest)
    ParentThing = a	
  End
  Method show_me:void() abstract     'wanted child method
End


Class ChildClass1 Extends BaseClass
  Method show_me:void()
    Print("ChildClass1")
  End 	
End 

Class ChildClass2 Extends BaseClass
  Method show_me:void()
    Print("ChildClass2")
  End 	
End 



Class AppTest Extends App
  Method OnCreate:Int()
    Local Problem:BaseClass = new ChildClass1(Self)
  End
End

Function Main:Int()
  New AppTest
End

Now it show "<32> : Error : Unable to find overload for new(AppTest)." as the error when I compile.

If I copy the new command from the BaseClass to each of the ChildClass's then it will work, but this kind of defeats the purpose of what I am trying to do.

I really only want to define the new method once, not in each of the childs.

Any ideas?

Shagwana

(Posted 2011) [#2]

As always, right after I post something like this I figure it out...

  Method new(a:AppTest)
    Super.new(a)
  End

Just needed to add the above to each of the ChildClasses.

ziggy

(Posted 2011) [#3]

"New" overloads do not get inherited. It's a sort of exception.