Gordon: That was simple enough. (Now I know what the meaning of "is", is)
Thanks for the help. Paul BTW for our non US readers, our illustrious president Clinton whilst trying to weasel out of owning up to engaging in hanky panky said "... it depends on what the meaning of is, is..." --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use the 'is' operator: > > if (field is ValidatedTextInput) > > Gordon Smith > Adobe Flex SDK Team > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of aceoohay > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 11:31 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Finding objects in flex > > > > I want to loop through all of the children of a flex object and find > all children of a specific type. > > I have code that works, but it looks really kludgy; > > for each (var field:Object in object.getChildren()) > { > if (field.constructor.toString() == "[class ValidatedTextInput]") > { > field.validateData(); > if (bolAllValid ) bolAllValid = field.isValid; > } > } > > Like I said it works, but there has got to be something better than; > > if (field.constructor.toString() == "[class ValidatedTextInput]") > > All help is rewarded with an attaboy! > > Actually it is greatly appreciated, but it is getting late. > > Paul >
