Thanks!
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There is a getDefinitionByName() function (not method) in the
> flash.utils package which will give you a Class reference if you give it
> a fully qualified class name like "mx.controls.Button".
>
> However, if the class doesn't actually exist in your application or in
> the Player, it will return null. So you must ensure that classes you
> want to look up by name actually get linked in. A common way to do that
> is to declare a static var of that type, even if you don't use this var.
>
> Gordon Smith
> Adobe Flex SDK Team
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of polestar11
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:05 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Any way to cast a string reference of a class name
> to its Class equivallent
>
>
>
> Hi there
>
> I have a list of class names stored as strings in an xml file.
> Is there any way to cast them to actual class items programatically
> once the file has loaded.
>
> Eg.
> <item classname="aClass"/>
>
> // in code
> myComponent.setStyle("icon", Class([EMAIL PROTECTED]));
>
> Cheers
> Tracy
>
