How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Deepak MS
Hi there, Is there a way we can get a running instance in our application, by using it’s id as a String? For ex: I have a mxml line which is There is a data xml in which these instance names (vAxis1, vAxis2 …) shall be declared:

RE: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Miguel Ferreira
see this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/468925/in-actionscript3-how-do-you-get-a-reference-to-an-objects-class Maybe this is enough for you? var classRef:Class = getDefinitionByName(getQualifiedClassName(myObject)) as Class; I hope it helps. Miguel. > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:09:12 +053

Re: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Marcus Wilkinson
I guess there's no reliable way to get the instance at runtime by id? Perhaps getChildByName could help? http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/DisplayObjectContainer.html#getChildByName() On 16 August 2013 12:39, Deepak MS wrote: > Hi there, > > Is the

Re: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Jitendra Jain
you can use myComponentName["myView"] where myComponentName is the parent one and myView is the child On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Deepak MS wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there a way we can get a running instance in our application, by using > it’s id as a String? > > > > For ex: > > I have a m

Re: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Marcus Wilkinson
There's no getElementByName, so maybe on the parent you could do (immediately contradicting my previous comment :) var myElement:* = parent["childId"] On 16 August 2013 12:50, Marcus Wilkinson wrote: > I guess there's no reliable way to get the instance at runtime by id? > Perhaps getChildByNam

Re: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Deepak MS
But 'myObject' here should be an actual object and not a string a believe? However I did try both options, but that did not work. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Miguel Ferreira < miguel.cd.ferre...@hotmail.com> wrote: > see this link: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/468925/in-actionscri

Re: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Deepak MS
To be precise, I was using linear axis in a model class, and i used myModelInstance["vAxis1"] and that worked. : ) That was simple concept but I kept banging my head with all types of combinations using getDefinitionByNamegetQualifiedClassName. Thanks for the help everyone... Cheers! O

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Harui
Has anyone found a point of contact at Google regarding the Maps API and Flash? Seems like if lots of people asked them to delay pulling it down they might, or folks could convince them to donate the Flash version to Apache or put it out on Google Code. It also wasn't clear whether you could use E

Re: Flash / Flex app

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/15/13 4:49 PM, "Mark Kessler" wrote: >What do you think weatherspark [1] is done in? Or the Sherwin Williams >color visualizer [2]? > > >[1] http://www.weatherspark.com >[2] http://www.sherwin-williams.com/visualizer/ You can find out by grabbing the SWFs from your cache and SWFDump-ing t

RE: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
Based on that recent article about Google pulling the API plug on Microsoft [1], it seems like they are trying to force people into HTML5 for all future apps. However I'm sure it was blown up larger than it needed to be. [1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/google-blocks-windows-phone-yo

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Harui
I'm fine with Google only developing APIs for HTML5. The question is whether anybody can build a Flash API around it. That's the premise of the FlexJS parallel frameworks. The mapping API providers that do provide or allow for parallel APIs for their maps will have the advantage if/when FlexJS t

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Alain Ekambi
Exporting the Maps API to Flash/ActionScript should be doable. This is basically what we do in Java using GWT and FaBridge. 2013/8/16 Alex Harui > I'm fine with Google only developing APIs for HTML5. The question is > whether anybody can build a Flash API around it. That's the premise of > th

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Doug McCune
> Has anyone found a point of contact at Google regarding the Maps API and > Flash? I don't want to be a debbie downer, but Google is historically horrible when it comes to things like this, and there has been a huge volume of annoyed messages posted to their google groups board about the flash A

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/16/13 8:25 AM, "Alain Ekambi" wrote: >Exporting the Maps API to Flash/ActionScript should be doable. >This is basically what we do in Java using GWT and FaBridge. I'm not quite sure how you are doing it, and we could poke a hole in Flash and use th e Iframe overlay or StageWebView, but I t

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Alex Harui
On 8/16/13 8:53 AM, "Doug McCune" wrote: >> Has anyone found a point of contact at Google regarding the Maps API and >> Flash? > > >I don't want to be a debbie downer, but Google is historically horrible >when it comes to things like this, and there has been a huge volume of >annoyed messages p

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Doug McCune
Your approach of using the actual Google JS API and wrapping that, either for use in FlexJS or Flex on Flash is viable though. My only point is that you need to avoid trying to port their API or use an alternative map component, etc. Stick with only their JS API (or your own abstraction layer on to

Re: AW: supported mapping APIs in Flex?

2013-08-16 Thread Doug McCune
> I saw that in the T&Cs. Seems like you can pay to use via some Enterprise > deal, no? Yup, for about $25k+ you can use the API in a commercial app. You still always have to use their JS API.

RE: How to get a class instance using string name?

2013-08-16 Thread Gordon Smith
Doesn't myModelInstance.vAxis1 work? Every MXML file defines a class, and every tag with an id defines a property in that class, where the name of the property is specified by the id. So when you have an instance of that class, you should just be able to use the dot operator to access that prope

Re: backends - parse/backendless/roll your own

2013-08-16 Thread Prem Radhakrishnan
Thank you Jerry, much appreciated. http://www.39dn.com Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jerry Hamby wrote: > Prem, > > Here are some links to get you starte