[haXe] best strategy to port an existing js library

[Danny Wilson]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:22:38 +0100, Franco Ponticelli  
<franco.ponticelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> You are cheating ;-) Your methods are not static. And if I want to use  
> them
> in an instance I can't because there is no constructor. Which way is the  
> one
> you wanted to develop?
>

I assumed people know about prototyping so I'll just extend my example:


class MyWrappingClass
{
   static function __init__()
   {
     untyped MyWrappingClass.prototype.niceAlert = __js__("niceAlert");
   }

   /** Static call **/
   public static function niceAlert(txt:String):Void = untyped  
__js__("niceAlert");

   /** Instance call to the same function **/
   public function niceAlert(txt:String); // Returns void

   // This is actually a cheat, I agree.
   public function  
someOtherFunctionWhichReturnsSomething(txt:String):ReturnType
   {return null;} // To trick haxe compiler

   public function new(); // Happy Franco? ;-P
}

Good luck, hehe


Kind regards,

      Danny Wilson


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