From 449d8ceb2144626175e4e8ff52e393641f5e7380 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex A. Naanou" <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 05:24:06 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] minor tweaks...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
---
 ui (gen4)/lib/actions.js |  6 ++++++
 ui (gen4)/object.js      | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ui (gen4)/lib/actions.js b/ui (gen4)/lib/actions.js
index 62f19069..a315d1f9 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/lib/actions.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/lib/actions.js	
@@ -670,6 +670,7 @@ module.MetaActions = {
 
 	// Mixin a set of local actions into an object...
 	//
+	// XXX this will not work on non-actions...
 	mixinTo: function(to, all, descriptors, all_attr_types){
 		return this.mixin.call(to, this, all, descriptors, all_attr_types)
 	},
@@ -741,6 +742,11 @@ module.MetaActions = {
 	mixoutFrom: function(to, all, descriptors, all_attr_types){
 		return this.mixout.call(to, this, all, descriptors, all_attr_types)
 	},
+
+	// XXX is this correct???
+	clone: function(){
+		return Object.create(this)
+	},
 }
 
 
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/object.js b/ui (gen4)/object.js
index f0cef116..093f0df5 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/object.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/object.js	
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ function makeConstructor(name, a, b){
 	var cls_proto = b == null ? b : a
 
 	var _constructor = function Constructor(){
+		/*
 		// in case this is called as a function (without new)...
 		if(this.constructor !== _constructor){
-			// NOTE: the folowing does the job of the 'new' operator but
-			// 		with one advantage, we can now pass arbitrarry args 
+			// NOTE: the following does the job of the 'new' operator but
+			// 		with one advantage, we can now pass arbitrary args 
 			// 		in...
 			// 		This is equivalent to:
 			//			return new _constructor(json)
@@ -39,6 +40,19 @@ function makeConstructor(name, a, b){
 		} else {
 			var obj = this
 		}
+		*/
+
+		// NOTE: the following does the job of the 'new' operator but
+		// 		with one advantage, we can now pass arbitrary args 
+		// 		in...
+		// 		This is equivalent to:
+		//			return new _constructor(json)
+		var obj = {}
+		obj.__proto__ = _constructor.prototype
+		// XXX for some reason this does not resolve from .__proto__
+		obj.constructor = _constructor
+		//obj.__proto__.constructor = _constructor
+
 
 		// load initial state...
 		if(obj.__init__ != null){