Wow. Getting this to work involves creating a wrapper class around an undocumented method in playerglobal.swc, which is not under our control.
That doesn't sound like a sustainable way forward :-( EdB On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > Told you it was under-documented ;-). The secret handshake is apparently > to ignore autocomplete and use google. Looks like it is > avmplus.describeTypeJSON(). I've not used it, but there was a recent > thread about it. > > On 11/5/13 9:54 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>My FlashBuilder's autocomplete is not aware of such a method. Any >>secret handshakes I should be aware of to activate it? >> >>EdB >> >> >> >>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Apparently, there is a under-documented describeTypeJSON which I think >>>the >>> application frameworks are using to get any and all metadata on a class >>> and its methods because it is much faster than regular describeType. >>> Maybe we should do that. >>> >>> -Alex >>> >>> On 11/5/13 5:42 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>flash.utils.describeType has an XML return type. JavaScript doesn't >>>>have anything like that and I'm sure we don't want to simulate it for >>>>the purpose of this exercise. >>>> >>>>I suggest we create a utility class >>>>"org.apache.flex.utils.DescribeType" and put some static methods on it >>>>that allow us to get tailored introspection... Maybe start with >>>>'DescribeType.getMetaData(value:*)'? >>>> >>>>What metadata are you thinking of, specifically? >>>> >>>>EdB >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Ix Multimedia Software >>>> >>>>Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>>>3521 VB Utrecht >>>> >>>>T. 06-51952295 >>>>I. www.ixsoftware.nl >>> >> >> >> >>-- >>Ix Multimedia Software >> >>Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>3521 VB Utrecht >> >>T. 06-51952295 >>I. www.ixsoftware.nl > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
