There is no API for it. Maybe someday
On 1/14/10 5:03 AM, "yaksaver" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, How can one programmatically retrieve the address / handle that is seen in Flex Debugger? Example: flash.system.ApplicationDomain (@788d1f1) Background: Classes without an explicit toString() method give the default Object String (e.g. "[object ApplicationDomain]") for trace() or logging statements. This means one cannot spot the difference between different instances in the logs. In Java (sorry, yes I'm more a Java guy but have been using Flex for the last 6-odd months), the default toString() method gives the instance handle (the address-like thing). Obviously, this exists within the AVM. So my question is how to access it programmatically? (perhaps some namespace, perhaps some me! thod we've overlooked?) Some thoughts: * The tripple-equals test must compare by this value so things like Dictionary must be indexing off it (but we can't find the source for this class) * * It would be an obvious thing to use as default for a hash-table implementation. * Obviously, since it's used for sending and offlining, describeType() doesn't include this information. (it would change per run) * * ObjectUtil.toString() gives a something with "#0" at the end rather than this instance info. All hints and thoughts welcome! Cheers, YakS[h]aver R. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe System, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
