Question

I have this situation where i’m trying to save “chat logs” while people switch around views in my flex mobile application..

so, my plan is i’m starting out with a main object that I plan to re-use as the main chat log object..I call it textObj

so, when someone new wants to chat my plan is to make a new object with the persons username

so how if i were to get the username from something like data.username how could I translate that into the var name of the object I want to make? So in the end i end up with

var uniqueUsername:Object = new Object();

so I can eventually do something like

uniqueUsername.chatLog="Sample text log";

EDIT: I guess I wasn’t clear I dont literally mean uniqueUsername as the username….

say data.username was equal to AwesomeDudeYeah

and I wanted to make

var AwesomeDudeYeah:Object = new Object();

I cant just do

var data.username:Object = new Object();

so how could I make that work?

I want to make the username how I refer to the chat logs inside the textObj

Then how would I go about adding that to the textObj obj?

So i end up with textObj.uniqueUsername.chatLog="Sample text log";

which i could reference by doing textObj[uniqueUsername][chatLog]

(at least I think thats how it would be done)

Any help on these topics would be great!

Answer 1

bracket notation

var textObj:object = new Object();
textObj[uniqueUsername].chatLog = "Sample text log";


//accessed by
textObj[uniqueUsername].chatLog

if uniqueUsername does not exist in the textObj then you will get errors so make sure you handle them

    textObj[uniqueUsername] //basically if this is undefioned or null

//then when you do 
 textObj[uniqueUsername].chatLog // is trying to find chatLog on a null/undefined object

The error gods will smite you down

[EDIT]
After reading your comments with Jax I think you should rework it a bit and make it more readable

var aUsers:Array = new Array( );

var oUser:Object = new Objbect();
    oUser.name = uniqueUsername;
    oUser.chatLog = "Sample text log";

aUsers.push( oUser );

Personally I would make a user class and hold user data in that.