FolderItem errors

General
1

I’m trying to make an App property for a folderitem.

I created the property with the following
Name: myFolder
Type: FolderItem
Default: SpecialFolder.Documents.Child(“My Folder”)
scope: private

but when I try to run, I get an error that FolderItem requires more arguments than it was passed.

The property clearly shows it being recognized as
myFolder as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Documents.Child(“My Folder”)

And if I use that line as is in a regular method, it has no problem, but put it in a property and Xojo has a conniption.

I tried changing the scope to public or protected and made no difference.

Am I not allowed to use FolderItem in a property?

2

Remove the default value
You can set it to be the result of a method call (which is what SpecialFolder.Document.Child is)

OR make it a read only computed property
Create a new computed property
empty out any code in the SET
In the GET put the following

return  SpecialFolder.Documents.Child("My Folder")
3

That Worked!

So can regular properties only handle static values then?
And not returned values?

4

Regular property default values can not be initialized with a function call result
It has to be a literal or constant

5

Workaround for that: call a function in the Constructor, and assign the returned value to the property.

6

I ended up just leaving it as a regular property with a blank value, then assigning it in the apps open event.