What is a superclass?

[outdoors]

During some other research i found superclass. Suprisingly i cant find any noob information about it. What is it, what does it do and how do i use it?

[Gundark]

A superclass is a class' parent class. It's the class that a class extends (inherits).

You can access the constructor of a super class by using the super() function in your classes constructor.

[outdoors]

okej, that was easy. Can you give me an example when this would be useful?
And would you send arguments with super(args) or have i missunderstood?

[Gundark]

Yeah, super() literally calls the superclass' constructor. So you'd need to pass all the arguments that your superclass' constructor takes.

There are plenty of times when you'd want to use this. Say you had a Point class and then extended it to create a 3 dimensional point class called Point3D. You could pass the x and y value to the superclass' constructor by doing super(x,y) in Point3D's constructor.

[outdoors]

okej, I like your answers, really clear and specific. thanks alot!

[Gundark]

No problem. Glad I could help!