The bracket notation should work. Use a var to get a ref to the object you want first, inspect csome properties via the reference to be sure is is valid, then set your properties.
var oTemp:Object = this["H" + i]; trace (oTemp.id) oTemp.width = iWidth; Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chigwell23 Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: still having trouble assembling Flex property assignments from string calcs Thanks for the responses - (missed quotes was in my example not code :-)) - what I need to do generically is communicate with Flex objects and their properties by constructing their ids etc. My example was for a degrafa UI instance of class Surface, which has a child of fill221 which has a property of color, which might have been too convoluted an explanation .... say I have 5 HBoxes in a Canvas, with ids of H1, H2,H3,H4, H4. in a script block I can H1.width = 100; // standard coding Pseudocode: ["H" + var1].width = 100 // var1 = 1 and the concatenation creates id H1, setting its width to 100 Thus in a loop of 1 to 5, one could use the value of i ["H" + i].width to set the width of the 5 HBoxes TIA, Mic. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know if he's using non-UIComponents or not. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of Tracy Spratt > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:06 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] still having trouble assembling Flex property > assignments from string calcs > > > > I am a bit surprised the assignment works. I was under the impression > that for styles, we needed to use setStyle(). > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of Alex Harui > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:37 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] still having trouble assembling Flex property > assignments from string calcs > > > > You don't have quotes around #FF0000. > > > > It would help if you tell us what problem occurs when you do this. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of chigwell23 > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:01 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] still having trouble assembling Flex property > assignments from string calcs > > > > testSurface.fill221.color = "#FF0000"; //works > > testSurface.["fill" + fillNo].color = #FF0000 // fillNo = 221 > > is what I would do in another life :-) ... could someone set me on the > straight and narrow? TIA, > > Mic. >
