iterate through "this" properties

[chrismarx]

i can do

	var test:Object = {
		prop1:"sup",
		prop2:"hey"
	}
	
	for (var prop:String in test){;
		trace(prop);
	}

but i can't do

public function init(){
	var me = this;
	for (var prop:String in me){
		trace(prop);
	}
}

is there no way to iterate through the global "this", so that i can target/select multiple elements without actually needing to know their ids?
thanks!

[xxneon]

when you iterate 'this' it will not iterate the same way as it did with as2.. iterating though properties of this will only show you any dynamic properties that were added to 'this' it will not show every property associated to 'this'..

and to iterate though children on the display list of a container .. i would think that you would need to iterate based on the children length..

var totalChildren:int = this.numChildren;
var item:int;
for(item = 0; item < totalChildren; item++){
    trace(this.getChildAt(item).name);
}

there might be a better way .. but this would at least iterate through the children of 'this' based on what is on its display list.

[senocular]

for..in loops only iterate through dynamic properties (of dynamic classes). If you want to iterate through non-dynamic properties, use describeType.

[chrismarx]

thanks for both replies, very useful! i noticed that it appears that elements don't show up in "this" unless they've been assigned id's. So am i correct in assuming that if i want to, for instance, find all the label elements in my mxml, that i would need to traverse all the parent elements, since they're not directly exposed? I'm attempting an alternative approach by building a custom label component with the logic i need, but I'm having some trouble there as well, check out the post-

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s....php3?t=183826