I know that I can get info about constants, methods, etc of a class by using flash.utils.describeType. But I want to know if I can retrieve the asdoc comments of a class member.
I suspect, documentation is removed when classes are compiled into SWF so it might be impossible to get comments during run-time.. am I right?
You can’t do this during runtime. It is as you expected. In the Flex Compiler comments are optimized out of the resulting SWF. This, in theory, helps decrease file size. I assume Flash Pro does similar optimization.