Hi All
Searching the web there are hundreds of answers to why getDefinitionByName doesn't work - because the class definition that you are trying to get is not included in the swf.
This is not that problem.
My app is loading a swc at run time, unzipping it, reading the xml and displaying a list of classes that were in that swc. You can then select a class and it will be added to the stage.
When I load the swc and try to use getDefinitionByName I get the following trace:
getting class: com.company.assets:AppFooterShadow
error: Error #1065: Variable assets:AppFooterShadow is not defined.
The com.company is stripped off the beginning!
From code similar to this:
try
{
trace( "getting class: " + definition );
var currentClass : Class = getDefinitionByName( definition ) as Class;
}
catch( e : Error )
{
trace( "error: " + e.message );
}
If I type a class name in a text input box and try to load that it works fine - with exactly the same string being passed to the function.
Anyone got any idea what is going on here? Seems very odd to me.