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Flexibility matters (AS1)

If we want to get or set any of the properties of an object, we can write something like this:

var miObj = new Object();
miObj.prop1 = "design-nation";

Although, we could have written something like:

var miObj = new Object();
miObj["prop1"] = "design-nation";

So, we can access an object properties dynamically, for example:

var miObj = new Object();
miObj.prop1 = "property1";
miObj.prop2 = "property2";
miObj.prop3 = "property3";

And we can retrieve those values like this:

for (var k=1;k<4;k++){
 trace("prop"+k+ " = " + miObj["prop"+k]);
}

But, what about the methods?. No problem. Let’s see:

var miObj = new Object();
miObj.metodo1 = function(){
 	trace("metodo1");
}

miObj["metodo1"]();

That’s the way we can execute any given method of an object, without really knowing which one we are trying to access.