Re: [flexcoders] AS/Flex equivilent of getElementById() ??

[Patrick Lemiuex]

something like:

var myCheckBox:CheckBox = new CheckBox();
myCheckBox.id = "myCheckBoxID";

Works like this:

myCheckBox.selected = true;

On May 18, 2007, at 4:46 PM, carl_steinhilber wrote:

Given a string that represents the id of a given component, is there a
way to get a handle to that component?

Something like:

var myCheckboxName:String = "checkbox1";
var myActualCheckbox:CheckBox = getElementById(myCheckboxName);
myActualCheckbox.selected = true;

I figured if nothing else I'd be able to eval() the string... but then
I remembered that AS3 deprecated eval().

Anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
-Carl