{"id":180,"date":"2009-02-07T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2009-02-07T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T07:00:22","slug":"static-constructor-initializer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Static Constructor \/ Initializer"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"brush: as3; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\npackage{\r\n\t\r\n\tpublic class Lookup{\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tprivate static var _random:Array;\r\n\t\t\/\/ static initializer\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\ttrace(&quot;I am a static initializer for &quot; + Lookup);\r\n\t\t\tinit();\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tprivate static function init():void{\r\n\t\t\t _random = new Array();\r\n\t\t\t \/\/ generate some filler values\r\n\t\t\t for (var i:int = 0; i&lt;100; i++){\r\n\t\t\t \t_random.push(Math.random() * i);\r\n\t\t\t }\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\tpublic static function get random():Array{\r\n\t\t\treturn _random.concat();\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230;and to test out the above class:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: as3; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\npackage {\r\n\timport flash.display.Sprite;\r\n\r\n\tpublic class Main extends Sprite{\r\n\t\tpublic function Main(){\r\n           trace(Lookup.random&#x5B;50]);\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n}\r\n\/*\r\noutputs:\r\nI am a static initializer for &#x5B;class Lookup]\r\n5.4258062043227255\r\n*\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The above shows how to use static initializers. I&#8217;ve found this to be very handy&#8230; in this case we create an array of random values&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll actually post a real class where I make use of this&#8230; the Lookup class in this case is really just filler code&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>package{ public class Lookup{ private static var _random:Array; \/\/ static initializer { trace(&quot;I am a static initializer for &quot; + Lookup); init(); } private static function init():void{ _random = new Array(); \/\/ generate some filler values for (var i:int = 0; i&lt;100; i++){ _random.push(Math.random() * i); } } public static function get random():Array{ return _random.concat(); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oop","tag-actionscript","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}