On 9/6/07, Mendelsohn, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just as I suspected, Julian. Thanks for your reply. Doesn't this
> feature exist in AS3? (I have no experience with it yet.)
As I recall, duplication in AS2 wasn't really duplication--just
instantiation of the same symbol and its associated class. In AS3 you
can do the same thing a bit differently:
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;
function duplicateDisplayObject(original:DisplayObject,
parent:DisplayObjectContainer, name:String):DisplayObject {
var originalClass:Class =
getDefinitionByName(getQualifiedClassName(original));
var duplicate:DisplayObject = new originalClass() as DisplayObject;
duplicate.name = name;
parent.addChild(duplicate);
return duplicate;
}
NOTE: I haven't tested this.
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