The describeType utility will give you information about variables accessible to you, I think it will not give you information about privates if you are not an instance of that class.
Agreed that manipulation of privates is sometimes useful, I know lots of people like to do the prototype hacking that Jesse mentioned, but the benefits in locking some of this stuff down from an API cleanliness perspective, developer predictability, and finally performance, seem to outweigh what we lost. Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Raymond Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Changing the properties of a Drag Proxy in Flex 1.5 (also AS3 type safety) Close, but no cigar. This will get you to the proxy you set via DragManager.doDrag: Object(mx.managers.DragManager)._dragProxy.proxyImage Of course it's still undocumented and unsupported. FYI, it's a very useful developer feature to be able to introspect and subvert the type system at runtime. It allows the brave to get around many limitations the library designers did not forsee. Is this behavior still supported in AS3? I vaguely remember they tightened up the meaning of private. Hopefully there is still a mechanism to expose even private properties (strangely even Java allows this via refelction). Sadly, I haven't been able to devote any time to Flex 2 beta. --- In [email protected], "JesterXL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, but it's undocumented and unsupported. > > I think it's like _root["_dragProxy"], or > mx.core.Application.application["_dragProxy"]. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Raymond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:49 AM > Subject: [flexcoders] Changing the properties of a Drag Proxy > > > Is there a way to change the properties of the dragProxy in response > to a drag event? > > For example can you change the size or scale of the proxy if you drag > it over certain targets? > > > > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
