[Newbies] Re: overwriting #new

[David Mitchell]

In the browser, did you define newFoo when you were looking at the
class messages? It shouldn't be in the same list as someMessage
(instance side). Click the class button on the browser to see class
messages (where newFoo should go).

On 7/13/07, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:56:22 +0200, you wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a class Foo inherited from Object. When I try to create a user
> > defined #new (newFoo), to avoid the #initialize instance method to run
> > as part of the object instantiation, I get the following error:
> > ... class(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #newFoo ...
>
> When you select the word newFoo and ask for implementors (alt-m), is this
> the only one in the result list which has "Foo class" in it?
>
> If so then we must know more, can you post a fileOut of the definition of
> Foo class and its #newFoo method.
>
> /Klaus
>
> > method definition:
> > - --------------
> > newFoo
> >   | model|
> >   model := self basicNew.
> >   .. do something ..
> >   model initialize.
> >   ^model
> > - --------------
> > usage:
> > someMethod
> >   | foo |
> >   foo := Foo newFoo.
> >   .. do something ..
> > - --------------
> >
> > Is there something that I missed to overwrite the #new method?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel.
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