RE: [flexcoders] Instantiating a class from a dynamically loaded swf

[Alex Harui]

This is an ApplicationDomain issue.  Read the docs, check out the presentations 
on my blog.  One way to solve would be to  expose your own getDefinition call 
on the content so you make the call in its context

From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of dustyjewett
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:03 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Instantiating a class from a dynamically loaded swf


I'd like to be able to load a swf that has many movieclip assets in it, then 
instantiate those assets (icons) throughout the application.

What I'm doing now is:

    private function handleSwfLoaded(e:Event):void{
        for each(var mc:MovieClip in e.currentTarget.content){
            var ui:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
            ui.addChild(mc);
            ui.height = mc.height;
            mc.y = 0;
            mc.x = 0;
            this.addChild(ui);
        }
 &nb! sp;  }

This code will get all of the child items of a loaded swf (those items on the 
canvas that were named) and add them to the current app.

What I want to do is to instantiate new objects, so something more similar to:

    private function handleSwfLoaded(e:Event):void{
        for each(var mc:MovieClip in e.currentTarget.content){
            var clipClass:Class = getDefinitionByName(getQualifiedName(mc));
            var newClip:MovieClip = new clipClass();
            var ui:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
            ui.addChild(newClip);
            ui.height = newClip.height;
            newClip.y = 0;
            newClip.x = 0;
            this.addChild(ui);
        }
 &nbs! p;   ;}

Unfortunately, this throws the error:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable icon_regactions_print is not defined.
    at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()

Which is particularly interesting, as I'm feeding it 'getQualifiedClassName()'.

One suggestion floating around is that I should just serialize the object with 
ByteArray then deserialize it into another object. I'm hoping that there is 
something I'm just missing.

(And yes, for the record, I am exporting all classes on first frame and 
exporting for runtime sharing)