How do you areate new instance() when instance is a variable?

[wu-tang]

I have a base class I've used on 6 different MC's.

Then when I use these MC's my function runs an if statement to check which one to add.

if(id=design) var obj = new design();
if(id=team) var obj = new team();

I want to make it a bit more dynamic and use the id:String to evaluate which new instance to create.

Anyone know how to do this or even if it's possible?

public function loadChapter(id:String):void {
    var obj = new instance_of( id )();
}

[tadster]

Hmmm, you can't do it like that with Classes.
I would suggest something like this:

var classOptions:Object = {"design":Design, "team":Team};
//in that Object Design and Team are the Classes.
 public function loadChapter(id:String):void {     
   var obj = new classOptions[id](); 
 }

[wu-tang]

Thanks. I didn't think so : (

It works fine with the if statement for now... It would be handy to eval classes like that. Oh well.

[henke37]

I think you missed the flash.util.getDefinitionByName function, it will let you look up Classes based on their fully qualified names.

[tadster]

What I showed you works, and is more flexible than just a whole bunch of if statements, it's just that you can't reference the Class using just 'this'
you have to put a 'hard' reference to the Class constructor somewhere or use getDefinitionByName.

new this["className"]();
//can't do that without first calling getDefinitionByName to get the Class definition.
//for example -
var class:Class = flash.utils.getDefinitionByName("className");
new class();

var someThing:Array = [1,2,3,4];
var two:Number = this["someThing"][1];
//this will work however, just not with Classes. 

In your case however, you also want to limit your need of if statements, so the object with Class names in it is an ok option vs getDefinitionByName.

Edit:
yep, I hit submit for this post, then saw Henkes reply, he is correct of course.

[wu-tang]

Sweet man thanks. Exactly what I wanted!

It works like too:

var objClass:Class = Class(getDefinitionByName(id));
var instance = new objClass;