On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Matt Maher wrote:
I bet this is easy.
I have "MainView" as a string and I need to create an object of that
type... for example
var myObject:Object = new GetObjectFromString("MainView");
I know, that line of code is a mess. Got any help for me?! Thanks!!
I ran into something like this the other day. "getDefinitionByName()"
is what you're looking for.
// import utils
import flash.utils.*;
// our target class
import mx.controls.Button;
var className = "Button";
var theClass:Object = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName("mx.controls." +
className);
var theNewObject = new theClass();
I only messed with it long enough to get what I needed out of it so
others here might be able to chime in. As far as I was able to tell,
you still need the full path ("mx.controls." in this example).
john
