Displaying an Object

Classic Servoy
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Hi

If I have an instance of my self defined class City.

  • is it possible to display it in a field? I tried implementing toString(), asString(), objectFor(),… but nothing worked :-(
  • is it possible to convert a string, entered by a user, back into an instance of my class (like fromString())?

Thank you and regards
Birgit

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I don’t know how it is when you work with JavaScript but in Java you have to do both ways (to and from string) yourself.

3

what should it show? (Do you have your own toString implementation??)

problem is that City is just a a function object.

dont know if you can overwrite the toString function so that that is used (by doing something with the prototype of the function object)

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Yes, I did implement toString() as instance method of class City. But it seems not to be used. Displayed is ‘Object’