Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A question about a few variables in a class Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:58:42 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2aas37dnmdjrkiqmgk2d1mfeblobpbdqdc@4ax.com> References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6846 On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:31:30 -0700 (PDT), Chad wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Are 'width' and 'height' data fields in this class? My initial guess >is yes they get passed to super. Most likely the super class will have some width and height variable with may or may not be private. But there is nothingh that says super has no save the values. It might just display them on the console or some such, or compute an area and save that. To solve this mystery, you must look at the code of the superclass. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Most of computer code is for telling the computer what do if some very particular thing goes wrong.