Question

Example:

public var myVar:Object;
// now I want to get the myVar string
// myVar is not instanced*
public var whatINeedIsThisVar:String = 'myVar';

thanks

Answer 1

There is no way to do that, and when you are working in release mode (i.e. not debuuging a swf) local variable name didn’t exist anymore.

But if it’s a public field name of a class you can use describeType to found the name.

package {
 import flash.utils.describeType;

 class Foo extends Sprite {
  public var bar:Object;

  function Foo(){
   super();
   // trace all public field name in this class
   for each (variable:XML in describeType(this).variable) {
    trace("field name : ", variable.@name);
   } 
  }
 }
}