Question

I have a class with many embedded assets.

Within the class, I would like to get the class definition of an asset by name. I have tried using getDefinitionByName(), and also ApplicationDomain.currentDomain.getDefinition() but neither work.

Example:

public class MyClass {   [Embed(source='images/image1.png')] private static var Image1Class:Class;   [Embed(source='images/image2.png')] private static var Image2Class:Class;   [Embed(source='images/image3.png')] private static var Image3Class:Class;    private var _image:Bitmap;    public function MyClass(name:String)   {     var ClassDef:Class = getDefinitionByName(name) as Class;  //<<-- Fails     _image = new ClassDef() as Bitmap;       } }  var cls:MyClass = new MyClass('Image1Class'); 

Answer 1

This doesn’t answer your question, but it may solve your problem. I believe doing something like this should work:

public class MyClass {   [Embed(source='images/image1.png')] private static var Image1Class:Class;   [Embed(source='images/image2.png')] private static var Image2Class:Class;   [Embed(source='images/image3.png')] private static var Image3Class:Class;    private var _image:Bitmap;    public function MyClass(name:String)   {     _image = new this[name]() as Bitmap;       } }  var cls:MyClass = new MyClass('Image1Class'); 

I’m having a tough time remembering if bracket notation works on sealed classes. If it doesn’t, a simple solution is to mark the class as dynamic.