🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 01 Dec 1998 09:49:17 -0500, Leo Cohen <lcohen@cs.virginia.edu>
wrote:

>I have a class, ViewManager with the constructor
>
>   public ViewManager(int view, String rootPath, Point locale) { ... }
>
>I want to include a second, convenience constructor as follows:
>
>   public ViewManager(int view, String rootPath, Point locale, UIMgr
>uiMgr) {
>      ... // set up things based on uiMgr
>      this(view,rootPath,locale);
>   }      
>
>However, the compiler tells me 
>
>	"method required, but value found."
>
>So, how do I reference a constructor with a different signature from
>inside a class?

Your example looks fine. One thing that may be tripping you up: The
call to this() must be the very first thing in the constructor, before
any other code and before any declarations.

-Steve