Question

I know actionscript does not allowed private contstructor at any time and But if i want to write a sinlgleton class in action script So how to implement it in actionscript.

Can anyone provide an sample example of a singleton pattern in actionscript?

Answer 1

I use something like this:

package singletons
{

    [Bindable]
    public class MySingleton
    {
        private static var _instance:MySingleton;

        public function MySingleton(e:Enforcer)  {
            if(e == null) {
                throw new Error("Hey!  You can't do that!  Call getInstance() instead!");
            }   
        }

        public static function getInstance():MySingleton {
            if(_instance == null) {
                _instance = new MySingleton (new Enforcer);
            }
            return _instance;
        }
    }
}

// an empty, private class, used to prevent outside sources from instantiating this locator
// directly, without using the getInstance() function....
class Enforcer{}