New Statement
Creates an object instance and initializes its state.
Syntax
Normal form
[ Shared ] [ New ] className [ < typeList > ] #object [ , argumentList ]
[ Begin [ defaultType ]
[ statements ]
End { New | className } ]
Subclass constructor form
New [ < typeList > ] #Base [ , argumentList ]
Parts
- Shared
- Optional in the normal form
- Not allowed in the subclass constructor form
- New
- Optional in the normal form
- Required in the subclass constructor form
- className
- Required in the normal form.
- Not allowed in the subclass constructor form where it is implicit.
- typeList
- Required only if className is a generic type. One or more data types separated by commas and enclose in angle brackets.
- #object
- Required in the normal form.
- Must be #Base in the subclass constructor form.
- argumentList
- Optional. One or more expressions separated by commas.
- Begin
- Optional. Marks the start of the multi-line form.
- defaultType
- Optional. Specifies a data type that the compiler should assume when a given statement makes its determination ambiguous.
- statements
- Required in the multi-line form. one or more object-creation statements (i.e., New or Object) or simply an argument list, which is treated like the arguments to a New statement. Each statement must be placed on a separate line.
- End New
- Terminates the multi-line form. Alternatively, you can also use End className instead.
Remarks
Examples
Listing 1
' Find all text files in current directory
Files #fs, "*.txt"
Listing 2
New Menu #File, "&File"
Begin
"&Open...", DoFileOpen
|----
"E&xit", DoFileExit
End New
Listing 3
Menu #File, "&File"
Begin
"&Open...", DoFileOpen
|----
"E&xit", DoFileExit
End Menu