[Laszlo-user] create a class by name

[Elliot Winard]

I thought it was preferable to use class objects that are in 'lz' object 
rather than global[classname]

Are the lz.* potentially going to go away?
-e

P T Withington wrote:
> eval is very limited in the swf runtime.  It can only evaluate var and 
> member expressions.
>
> Are you just trying to create a particular class, or do you need the 
> class to be variable, or do you need the name of the class to be a 
> variable?  E.g., you can just say:
>
>   new TestClass();
>
> Or:
>
>   var theclass = TestClass;
>   ...
>   new theclass();
>
> Or:
>
>   var theclassname = "TextClass";
>   ...
>   new global[theclassname]();
>
> All of these work.  Your mechanism is what is used to evaluate a 
> general expression, and is required because of the limited nature of 
> eval in the swf runtime.  It is basically calling back to the server, 
> having the server compile the expression, and then loading the 
> compiled code to evaluate it.
>
> In the DHTML runtime, eval is fully-featured, but remember it is a 
> security hole.  If you allow arbitrary user input to be evalled, you 
> really have no control...
>
>
> On 2007-10-12, at 14:12 EDT, Ruben Reusser wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> Is it possible to create a class by name in OpenLaszlo? I tried:
>>
>> eval("new TestClass()");
>>
>> but this does not work. The only solution I could find was the 
>> following:
>>
>> loader.request( { lz_load : false,lzt : "eval",proxied: true,url: 
>> "__debugger.lzx",lz_script : "#file interactive-eval-0\nnew 
>> TestClass()"} );
>>
>> not my favorite approach.
>>
>> Ruben
>>
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