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Glitcher
Glitcher

Reputation: 1184

Instantiate loaded swf with arguments at runtime

I'm working on a project that features a Master swf that loads in child swfs as required. Is there a way to load in these child swfs in such a way that the constructor in their document class can be called with arguments?

as an example:

I have a child class that is loaded in at runtime that can be given an alignment argument in its constructor.

I load that in at runtime as a class, and instantiate it with arguments in the parent, Master swf.

Obviously I could create a secondary 'constructor' in the child that builds what I want after instantiation, I'd just like to know if there is a way to manage instantiation of loaded swfs, and/or load them into classes rather than display objects.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 111

Answers (1)

Marijn
Marijn

Reputation: 810

A loaded SWF is already a constructed object. With AS3 you can get the classname and instantiate a new object:

pass in the object you want to 'duplicate' in the function below. It will get the classname and convert it into a class. Then, it wil create a new instance of that class, where you can pass in some arguments

public function getClassObj(obj:*, constructorArgument:*):* {
    var objClass:Class = Class(getDefinitionByName(getQualifiedClassName(obj)));
    var tempObj:* = new objClass(constructorArgument);
    return tempObj;
}

Upvotes: 1

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