illegally exposing your Friend type

[J W Cooper]

In Beta-2, I find that a function that returns an interface type gets
flagged as an error.

For example, I have an

Interface MultiChoice 'with 3 methods
Function getSelected() as ArrayList
Sub Clear()
Function getWindow() as Panel
End Interface

If I create a function

Public Function getBuilder (any arg or none) as MultiChoice
End Function

I get the error

getBuilder illegally exposes a Friend type outside the Public class
'wBuilder'

where "wBuilder" is the name of the class containing the function.

I don;t get it. I don't see any Friends being invoked anywhere. Is this
a bug?
It doesn't seem right to me, and of course it USED to work.

If I change that return type to Object, the program works fine, but
without any type checking, of course.

[Bill McCarthy]

Hi J W,

try declaring the Interface as Public, eg:

Public Interface MultiChoice
.....

"J W Cooper" <ctswim@ctswim.org> wrote in message
news:3B4C4C6E.D7360077@ctswim.org...
> In Beta-2, I find that a function that returns an interface type gets
> flagged as an error.
>
> For example, I have an
>
> Interface MultiChoice 'with 3 methods
> Function getSelected() as ArrayList
> Sub Clear()
> Function getWindow() as Panel
> End Interface
>
> If I create a function
>
> Public Function getBuilder (any arg or none) as MultiChoice
> End Function
>
> I get the error
>
> getBuilder illegally exposes a Friend type outside the Public class
> 'wBuilder'
>
> where "wBuilder" is the name of the class containing the function.
>
> I don;t get it. I don't see any Friends being invoked anywhere. Is this
> a bug?
> It doesn't seem right to me, and of course it USED to work.
>
> If I change that return type to Object, the program works fine, but
> without any type checking, of course.
>
>

[Jim Cooper]

That was it. Thanks.

Bill McCarthy wrote:

>
> try declaring the Interface as Public, eg:
>
> Public Interface MultiChoice
>