Parent Script
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One of the two types of Object Oriented script available in Director. The other type is the behavior. The only technical difference between a parent script and a behavior is that parent scripts do not appear in the Behavior Inspector during authoring.
Parent Scripts are of no consequence to non-programming Director users. They are used by pure Object Oriented programmers as a way to create objects.
To create an object in Lingo, you would first need to have a parent script to define the class of object. The parent script can contain:
- 'Property declarations - to add member properties
- A new handler - the constructor
- Member functions methods for the object
You can then instantiate the object using the following syntax:
myObject = script( "Parent Script Name" ).new( <parameters to new handler> )