> I was wondering if Flex/Actionscript allows you to create references > to object properties on the fly with a dynamically created string. Yes. If obj is an object and s is the String "foo", then obj[s] is obj.foo. - Gordon
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tedgies Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Treat a string as a reference to an object? Hi, I was wondering if Flex/Actionscript allows you to create references to object properties on the fly with a dynamically created string. For example i would like to add a new series to a chart series at runtime and dynamically create the reference to dataprovider (an httpservice) with a string. var numJournals:String = new String; numJournals = 3; var series = chartC.series; var dataXMLStr:String = new String; var newSeries:LineSeries = new LineSeries; dataXMLStr = "series" + numJournals + ".lastResult.item"; newSeries.dataProvider = dataXMLStr .... series.push(newSeries) chartC.series = series; The problem is that on the 7th line above newSeries does not recognize dataXMLStr as a reference to my httpservice dataprovider. So is there a function i can use to make dataXMLStr appear as a reference to my dataprovider, e.g. so flex will read: newSeries.dataProvider = series3.lastResult.item thanks, Ted
