Class Reference

[Michael Gioffredi]

I would like to be able to refer to a class with a string, but I can?t get it
to work with a variable.

For example, the following works:

var easing = mx.transitions.easing;

But this does not:

var string:String = "Bounce";
var easing = mx.transitions.easing;

What should I do differently?

[NSurveyor]

I don't know why you need this, but simply put the following before your code:

mx.transitions.easing.Bounce;
mx.transitions.easing.Back;
mx.transitions.easing.Elastic;
mx.transitions.easing.Regular;
mx.transitions.easing.Strong;
mx.transitions.easing.None;

(take out the ones you don't plan on using)

[Michael Gioffredi]

I?m building a component where the user will choose the type of ease. That way I would have to do a bunch of if/else or switch statements.

[NSurveyor]

For example, at the very beginning of your code, put:

mx.transitions.easing.Bounce;
mx.transitions.easing.Back;
mx.transitions.easing.Elastic;
mx.transitions.easing.Regular;
mx.transitions.easing.Strong;
mx.transitions.easing.None;

Then, you should be able to use:

[NSurveyor]

You're welcome.

Now if only somone would explain why that is necessary? Just taking a guess,
can be evaluated when compiling, but using can't. For some reason, it can't
evaluate these unknown variables until you make them known, simply by puting
them in code...? Myabe...