3 Replies Latest reply on May 19, 2011 6:32 AM by kglad

Object Type

Neat Gadget May 18, 2011 7:29 PM

In Actionscript 3 you can use flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName to determine the object type. Is there a way in Actionscript 2 to determine the object type?

I want to loop through a movie clip and process the contents of only objects that are textinput or comboboxes.

Code:

     for (var i in _root.form) {
          trace(_root.form[i]);
     }

This code will loop through a movieclip called form and show the instance name of the object. However sometimes new objects seem to be introduced such as when you tab through it. I want to only deal with the textinput and combobox objects.

1. Re: Object Type

kglad May 18, 2011 7:33 PM (in response to Neat Gadget)

describeType() is about as close as you can get in as2.
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2. Re: Object Type

Neat Gadget May 18, 2011 8:15 PM (in response to kglad)

I tried this:

trace(describeType(_root.form));

but got undefined. not sure if I am using it right. I also added import flash.utils.*; to the code.

Still reading up on describeType but any suggestions as to where I am going wrong would be much appreciated.
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3. Re: Object Type

kglad May 19, 2011 6:32 AM (in response to Neat Gadget)

_root.form doesn't exist when you execute that trace statement. fix that.
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