You shouldn't have to cast as an object. And, according to the docs, you should be able to simply add a property to a function and access it. No offense - I really do appreciate the effort to help me out - but casting seems to be a bit of a hack. Although I like AS3 there are some things that were so simple in AS1/AS2 that are just not possible, or require workarounds that really seem like hacks.
All I wanted to do was give some context to a function so when it is called it could grab that context info. An example of what people have wanted from this from the MX days is getting the name of the function for various reasons, including debugging and logging. My particular reason is a little more complex and probably seems strange unless you know the entire context of what I'm trying to do, but here goes ... I built a class that extends Proxy. The idea is that someone would call a function on the instance of the class and I would resolve it from a dynamically added manifest. That part isn't hard, using the override for callProperty. However, if someone tries to call a function using [] syntax the getProperty override is actually called, and a function is expected to be returned. Unfortunately, that scenario breaks what I was trying to accomplish since it means I need to return an actual function object and the function is not able to know it's name for me to determine if the call should go through or return an error. I could determine this in the getProperty override, but I don't necessarily know if the user meant to call a function or access a property. What I wanted to do was pass a function object back with a property on the function that was the name of the function. Instead I've had to build a class that stores a value in a variable and has a method on it that gets returned from the getProperty override. That is such a waste considering Function is supposed to be able to do what I want. So, I have a workaround, but I really want to know whether the documentation is correct and I've simply missed something, or Adobe needs to clean up the docs. I've already posted a comment in the LiveDocs asking about this and it has not yet been approved. That was about a week ago. Can anyone else confirm this? Or does anyone know how to get the example code working? On 12/8/06, Clint Modien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Function inherits from Object so you should be able to do... Object(this.test).prop = "someprop"; Why are you doing this? What are you trying to do... it sounds interesting.
