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Sub-Classing

by Robert Fritzen · in Torque 3D Beginner · 08/22/2013 (12:53 pm) · 2 replies

This should (hopefully) be something easy.

Lets say I have somewhere around 230 gui bitmap buttons that need to have access to a unique onMouseOver, and I don't want to have to do:

function GuiBitmapButtonCtrl::onMouseOver() { 
   if(%this.getName() $= "x" .. .. ..) {
   //blah
   }
}

or have to write functions for each (oh god no).

My initial though was the purpose of this thread. Is it possible to create a sub-class inside torquescript that parents another class?

IE: MySpecialGuiBitmapButtonCtrl -> GuiBitmapButtonCtrl
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Torque Owner Scott Przybylski
HydroSim
#1
08/22/2013 (1:46 pm)
I think what you're asking is possible, but I haven't tried it yet.

I found this it might be useful www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/19224

Uh, and this one which is linked at the bottom of that one
www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/54797

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#2
08/22/2013 (8:43 pm)
The 'class' and 'superclass' members let you do this. An object's name is also its lowest-level namespace. So you can do:
new Thing(MyName) {};
function MyName::doThing() {}
MyName.doThing();
Though obviously you can't give 230 objects the same name.