There is a getDefinitionByName() function (not method) in the flash.utils package which will give you a Class reference if you give it a fully qualified class name like "mx.controls.Button". However, if the class doesn't actually exist in your application or in the Player, it will return null. So you must ensure that classes you want to look up by name actually get linked in. A common way to do that is to declare a static var of that type, even if you don't use this var. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of polestar11 Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Any way to cast a string reference of a class name to its Class equivallent Hi there I have a list of class names stored as strings in an xml file. Is there any way to cast them to actual class items programatically once the file has loaded. Eg. <item classname="aClass"/> // in code myComponent.setStyle("icon", Class([EMAIL PROTECTED])); Cheers Tracy
