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georgejecook
Streaming Star
8 years ago

Any way to pass return value from extended component function?

I have Component BaseClass extends Group it has a function SayHello as string I then extend it with ExtendedClass extends BaseClass it extends funciton SayHello as string Is there any way for ...
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joetesta
Roku Guru
8 years ago
in BaseClass.xml
<field id="runSayHello" type="boolean" alwaysNotify="true" onChange="onRunSayHello" />
<field id="sayHelloResponse" type="string" />


in BaseClass.brs
sub onRunSayHello()
  m.top.sayHelloResponse = SayHello()
end sub


in ExtendedClass.brs
sub getBaseSayHello()
  m.top.observeField("sayHelloResponse","gotResponse")
  m.top.runSayHello = true
end sub

sub gotResponse()
  print "Response: "; m.top.sayHelloResponse
end sub