ActionScript 3.0 :: Passing A Ref To A MovieClip
Apr 8, 2010
I have two classes, DocumentClass and Icon. In DocumentClass I am instantiating Icon and in doing so passing it a number of arguments. One of the arguments is which symbol (MovieClip) to use in front of the icon being created. The selection of symbols are found in the library panel of the .fla that DocumentClass is attached to.So for example, DocumentClass needs an icon with a symbol of a folder on it, and the name of the folder symbol is Folder.What should DocumentClass pass to Icon as an argument? Should it be a string containing the symbol name, or a reference to Folder? If it is a string, how would Icon turn the string "Folder" into the Folder object? Should all of the icon graphics be instantiated in DocumentClass first?[code]
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