Thanks Gordon, Following your example, can you create the name of the root object dynamically and have it be treated as a valid property reference at runtime?
example: If i wanted obj1.foo, obj2.foo, or objsome_string.foo thanks, Ted --- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 >
