Comments on: ActionScript 3: Dynamic Classes

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…