Hi,

I am just migrating a project to Actionscript 2.0 and ran into a problem: In
1.0 I was adding a custom property to XML nodes like that:

myXMLnode.customProp = "hi";

If I do something like this in 2.0 I am getting en error because the property
does not exist in the class. I know how to add custom functions (via
prototype), but how can I add a custom property to the XMLNode class?

I appreciate every help!
Thanks!
Ingo

You create a class that extends the original class

with

class Yournode extends XMLNode {
var _prop:String;
// constructor
function Yournode(prop) {
_prop = prop;
trace(_prop)
}
public function getProp(){
return _prop;
}
}

In de flash file:
var myNode:Yournode = new Yournode("your prop value");
trace(myNode.getProp());

That should be it basically.

John



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Thanks, John!

The problem with this is that typically nodes aren't created with something
like "new customNode()". I can create a custom XML class "customXML" but if I
access nodes within that object, say "myCustomXMLInstance.firstChild", that
would be always be an instance of the standard XMLNode class and thus don't
have the custom property I need.

It's just like you can't subclass MovieClip by something like "new
customMovieClip()" but you need to attach a library symbol that's associated
with that class instead.

I can't really think of a way to get around that right now.
Ingo

Maybe post the question at the flashcoders mailing list. Some pretty good
people there. I'm only starting with the whole as2 thing and don't trust
myself on this already ;-)

John

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