1016: Base class is final.

[rockitgood]

How come I can't extend the Date class?

package com.utils
{
	public class DateFormat extends Date
	{
		private static var _months:Array = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
		private static var _appendToNum:Array = ["st", "nd", "rd", "th"];
		public function DateFormat()
		{
			super();
		}
	}
}

i just get this error

1016: Base class is final.

Also, is AS 2.0 I would have to use super(); and pass all the original arguments into the object. How does this work in AS 3.0?

[TruePatriot]

The date class uses the final attribute:

public final dynamic class Date

The final statement specifies that a method cannot be overridden or that a class cannot be extended.

You use the super() function the same way as in AS2.

[rockitgood]

oh man. So I guess the only way is for it to be a container class.. owell

[TruePatriot]

Originally Posted by rockitgood

oh man. So I guess the only way is for it to be a container class.. owell

Just use a static function that takes a date and returns a string. I don't understand why you'd want to copy those arrays into every date variable.

[rockitgood]

all i was trying to do was format the date into something like

July 1st, 2007

In the book i bought "ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook" they talk about a DateFormat class but it doesn't seem to exist...