--- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i'm able to add a new class on the fly > > > > No, you're not adding a new class on the fly. You're creating a new > instance of a ClassFactory subclass on the fly. A class is something > that is defined at compile time by a class { .. } definition. You cannot > create new classes at runtime, only instances of them.
It seems to me, though, that once you have that instance, it would be really cool if you could add stuff to it on the fly and then use that to stamp out new objects. After all, now you can do something like this: //create new INSTANCE of Canvas myCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas(); myButton:Button = new Button(); myButton.label = 'test'; myCanvas.addChild(myButton); If you could then take that Canvas and use it for an itemRenderer, how cool would that be? So if ClassFactory had some mechanism to call the methods that the object _in_ the factory has, we could not only use it for itemRenderers, but there would be a more satisfying answer for people who get frustrated trying to assign the same object to multiple parents. -Amy
