Create an object without calling the constructor?

[sublixt]

Pretty much what the title says. I am wanting to know how to create an object without calling the class' constructor.

[Junky]

Why would you want to do that?

[pbrockway2]

Why? What are you trying to do?

I'm not sure that such a thing is possible. Even Constructor<T>'s newInstance() "uses the constructor represented by...". It is the job of constructors to construct, and other code relies on objects having been constructed properly.

[sublixt]

The constructor opens a window and I dont want the window to open twice but I still need to use the methods in that class. If there is a better way please tell me.

[Junky]

What?

Constructors do not open windows unless you have added code to do that. If it it is not doing what you want then you need to fix the code so it does do what you want.

[Norm]

Move the utility methods to a separate class from the GUI class.

[JeffGrigg]

It is quite impossible to create an instance without calling a constructor.

However, a class can have as many constructor methods as you want. This might help you accomplish what you want.

[dmheli]

overload the constructor and use that new constructor. This way you can omit the "open a window" while maintaining the 1st constructor that opens a window, and at the same time you can still access the class' methods.