Iterating over properties of a class Actionscript
Hi I wonder if someone could help.
Still being fairly new to programming as a whole,
I have an incoming string to a function which i wish to validate against a static constant from a class.
The class is ListStyleType and it has numerous constants of the like ListStyleType.Decimal, ListStyleType.Box etc
Now I could create an array and place all the constants in that, and then loop over the values, but I dont really want to have to type out 50 odd values as the string constants already exist
Therefore I was wondering if there was any way I could loop of the properties of the class itself
ie something like
private function checkStyle(incomingString)
for each(var property:String in ListStyleType){
if (incomingString== property){
etc.....
}
}
}
Thanks in advance
Still being fairly new to programming as a whole,
I have an incoming string to a function which i wish to validate against a static constant from a class.
The class is ListStyleType and it has numerous constants of the like ListStyleType.Decimal, ListStyleType.Box etc
Now I could create an array and place all the constants in that, and then loop over the values, but I dont really want to have to type out 50 odd values as the string constants already exist
Therefore I was wondering if there was any way I could loop of the properties of the class itself
ie something like
private function checkStyle(incomingString)
for each(var property:String in ListStyleType){
if (incomingString== property){
etc.....
}
}
}
Thanks in advance
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Perhaps a little explanation at what's actually happening now:
If you call
If you however call
Now the function is incoked and the string itself and any other parameter is passed and the function is executed. You could also return a value if you needed to. I just did a void function, but any other type of function would work.
If you call
checkStyle("hurz")If you however call
checkStyle("constant3")Now the function is incoked and the string itself and any other parameter is passed and the function is executed. You could also return a value if you needed to. I just did a void function, but any other type of function would work.
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You want to create an input that takes a string and if this string matches a constant you want it to execute something (each constant different action)?