I already wrote an article about the AS3 describeType-method. This time I build an example which uses describeType() to extract accessors from a GUI element (in this case but theoretical every object) and fill the information into a inspector-like DataGrid a hierarchical TreeView and also a raw view of the XML data. I think with this functionality it should be possible to create a X-Ray-clone with much less effort than the original project.

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Flex 3 project files:  LiveComponentInspector (569.85 Kb)

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Campbell Anderson said:

Like FlexSpy?

2008-08-08 11:11:43 | url

erik said:

Hi Campbell, didn't notice FlexSpy. This is project seems to be really amazing. Thanks for the hint! FlexSpy @ Google Code http://code.google.com/p/fxspy/

2008-08-08 12:01:42 | url

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