Question

First off, I’m rather n00b at AS3 so I’m sorry if this is a terrible question. I’ve searched and can’t find direct reference/solution to this exact issue.

My Problem:
I’m trying to embed all my pertinent graphics within a class(“Assets.as”) which will have a static method to retrieve these embedded graphics by name.

What I’ve Tried:

Assets.as

package
{
    [...imports...]

    public class Assets
    {       
        [Embed(source="assets/images/l_peak.png")]
        public static const l_peak:Class;

        public static function getByName(pName:String):Bitmap
        {
            var retClass:Class = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName(pName) as Class;
            return new Bitmap(new retClass());  
        }
    }
}

This however returns a null object. Any way I work this, the getDefinitionByName() either returns null or says there isn’t an object named that(i.e. “l_peak”).

I know you can use a loader() to do this dynamically with graphics, but I was hoping to embed these graphics and simply get them dynamically by their name.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

Why don’t you try:

return Assets[pName];