Comments on: ActionScript 3: Dynamic Classes

By: Ivo

Ivo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:18:10 +0000

You should be able to add getters and setters in the usual way, but only for dynamically added properties since dynamic functions can only reference public properties, which kind of makes dynamic getters and setters useless…

By: sietjp

sietjp — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:06:06 +0000

Thanks for this aritcle.
Does someone know how to add getter and setter methods dynamically to a dynamic class ?

function get foo():Object {return _foo;}
function set foo(Object f) {_foo=f;}

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:15:52 +0000

Thanks for this. I was looking at doing something much simpler, that is variables dynamically. In particular I wanted to create multiple TextInput boxes that I could reference later.
I thought I could do this is in AS3….

//groupdata array contains the ids of the fields
for(var i:int = 0; i

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:37:49 +0000

Dynamic typing gets a lot of bad press. In a developing world where you can’t determine exactly what the developers are going to do with your components, dynamic typing makes it impossible to code your target audience into a corner. MovieClip.prototype’s that proliferated on the internet has shown the glory of allowing developers to modify your classes at runtime.

http://proto.layer51.com/

Adobe really screwed the pooch using private in the Flex 2 framework. There should of been a law to NOT use private because now we have to compile our own versions if we need to change things. Even worse, our Flex 2 component source will differ than a clients, thus we need to ensure we follow the license, and document our changes.. .blah blah blah.

Dynamic typing would rock if the compiler didn’t abandon us…