Ok, thanks T.J.,
I really wanted to get the name of the Class as a string. The reason
is this:
I'm working on a project that lets you create really simple webpages
by adding, editing and removing objects (images, text, ..) to your
page. To structure my code I do 2 things:
1.) I create classes for all objects on the page (for instance a
general object-class, that holds general functions for editing,
removing, etc and subclasses that inherit from the general class and
implement their specific editing etc-functions (like for editing
images, texts, etc)). Then I take the editable dom-elements of the
page and extend them with the methods of the classes (I extend an
editable image with the image-class etc) excluding methods like
"initilize" or "constructor". That way I can make use of class-
inheritance and still have that sweet syntactic sugar like $
('myImage').edit() (actually it's $('myImage').rbEdit() because of
possible name-conflicts).
Now what I want to prevent is that a DOM-Object get's extended by same
class twice, because that would overwrite existing values, so I
thought I might save what classes an object has already been extended
with, and stop before it gets extended twice. But I'll think I'll
define the classname as a property in the class itself then, and maybe
throw an error if the classname has not been set.
On Dec 17, 3:08 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bernard,
>
> 1. No need to be offensive. If you think a question is beneath you, by
> all means ignore it rather than moaning into everyone's mailbox.
>
> 2. This question is almost certainly about Prototype's `Class`
> feature, not JavaScript. Yes, if you know JavaScript well you
> automatically know the answer to certain aspects of the question, but
> we were all new once, we all have limited time to read things, and we
> don't all learn perfectly reading general texts; sometimes we need our
> specific question answered in order to understand a broader concept.
> --
> T.J. Crowder
> Independent Software Engineer
> tj / crowder software / com
> www / crowder software / com
>
> On Dec 16, 5:02 pm, bernard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I truly wish some people would take the trouble to buy a javascript book
> > instead of off-topic-posting in this group... meh.
> > b.
>
> > Intellectual honesty consists in taking ideas seriously. To take ideas
> > seriously means that you intend to live by, to practice, any idea you
> > accept as true.
> > [Ayn Rand]
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