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user2136963

Reputation: 2606

How to assign a custom object to bytesArray? As3

I have a TActor class and a function to_bytes() inside it that should compress it to a bytes array as in this example: http://jacksondunstan.com/articles/1642

 public function to_bytes():ByteArray
 {
        registerClassAlias("TActor",TActor);
        var bytes:ByteArray=new ByteArray();
        bytes.writeObject(this as TActor);
        bytes.position=0;
        trace(bytes.readObject());
        bytes.position=0;
        trace(bytes.readObject() as TActor);

        return bytes;
}

However, the first trace prints undefined and the second one null instead of [object TActor]. What do I do wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 39

Answers (1)

Bennett Keller
Bennett Keller

Reputation: 1714

It's important to note that the this keyword returns the current instance of the object. What you are currently doing is attempting to pass the this instance to writeObject, which will only work if there is an instance of TActor instantiated. So it would work in this scenario:

In some class where you instantiate TActor:

var tactor:TActor = new TActor();
tactor.to_bytes();

Then it should serialize correctly.

Also as we discovered in the comments, TActor is of type MovieClip, currently you cannot use writeObject() on Objects of type MovieClip. More specifically any object that is a dynamic class cannot be used in writeObject. Changing it to Sprite solved this particular case.

Upvotes: 1

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