Thanks Tracy - you are the man - I would never
have figured that one out !
Works like a charm..........
Tracy Spratt wrote:
> Actually, eval() in AS has never been a full eval like in Javascript. I
> has only been able to evaluate a reference to an object.
>
> The direct replacement(was in AS2 as well) is "bracket notation", which
> is actually more powerful than eval, because it can be used on the left
> side of an assignment as well as on the right.
>
> If befor you had:
> var oMyObject:Obect = eval("myString" + myVar);
>
> Change it to:
> var oMyObject:Object = this["myString" + myVar].
>
> Tracy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of {reduxdj}
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 4:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] eval() function removed in AS 3.0 ??
>
>
> from an earlier post about this topic:
>
> You need to roll it on your own. You could split the given path into
> its parts and try to evaluate one piece after the other until you come
> to the end.
>
> public function eval( scope : Object, path : String ) : Object
> {
> if( path == null ) return null;
>
> var result : Object = scope;
> var parts : Array = path.split('.');
> while( result != null && parts.length > 0 )
> {
> var part : String = parts.shift();
> result = result[ part ];
> }
> return result;
> }
>
> Untested code, but hopefully you get the point. Maybe you need to add
> some exception handling, when you try to access non existing
> properties.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralf,
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> pdflibpilot wrote:
>> According to the documentation "eval()" has been removed as function -
>> is there an alternative ? I really would like to use this function.
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