Top "Overriding" questions

Method overriding, in object oriented programming, is a language feature that allows a subclass or child class to provide a specific implementation of a method that is already provided by one of its superclasses or parent classes.

What's wrong with overridable method calls in constructors?

I have a Wicket page class that sets the page title depending on the result of an abstract method. public …

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Custom ImageView with drop shadow

Okay, I've been reading and searching around, and am now banging my head against the wall trying to figure this …

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How to underline a UILabel in swift?

How to underline a UILabel in Swift? I searched the Objective-C ones but couldn't quite get them to work in …

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Safely override C++ virtual functions

I have a base class with a virtual function and I want to override that function in a derived class. …

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Calling virtual functions inside constructors

Suppose I have two C++ classes: class A { public: A() { fn(); } virtual void fn() { _n = 1; } int getn() { return _n; } protected: …

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Java: Calling a super method which calls an overridden method

public class SuperClass { public void method1() { System.out.println("superclass method1"); this.method2(); } public void method2() { System.out.println("superclass …

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The difference between virtual, override, new and sealed override

I'm pretty confused between some concepts of OOP: virtual, override, new and sealed override. Can anyone explain the differences? I …

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Override a function call in C

I want to override certain function calls to various APIs for the sake of logging the calls, but I also …

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JavaScript: Overriding alert()

Has anyone got any experience with overriding the alert() function in JavaScript? Which browsers support this? Which browser-versions support this? …

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What does @Override mean?

public class NaiveAlien extends Alien { @Override public void harvest(){} } I was trying to understand my friend's code, and I do …

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