(Object Initializer) - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

{} (object initializer)

Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
object = {name1: value1, name2: value2,...nameN: valueN}
{expression1; [...expressionN]}
Parameters
The object to create.
object
name1,2,...N
value1,2,...N
Returns
Usage 1: An Object object.
Usage 2: Nothing, except when a function has an explicit
return type is specified in the function implementation.
Description
Operator; creates a new object and initializes it with the specified
Using this operator is the same as using the
using the assignment operator. The prototype of the newly created object is generically named the
Object object.
This operator is also used to mark blocks of contiguous code associated with flow control
statements ( ,
for
For more information, see "Operator precedence and associativity" in Using ActionScript in Flash.
Example
The first line of the following code creates an empty object using the object initializer ({})
operator; the second line creates a new object using a constructor function:
var object:Object = {};
var object:Object = new Object();
The following example creates an object
, ,
city state zip
var account:Object = {name:"Macromedia, Inc.",
address:"600 Townsend Street",
city:"San Francisco",
state:"California",
zip:"94103",
balance:"1000"};
for (i in account) {
trace("account."+i+" = "+account[i]);
}
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The names of the properties.
The corresponding values for each
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, and with accompanying values:
balance
property.
name
return
syntax and populating the property pairs
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and initializes the properties
account
statement, in which case the
and property pairs.
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,
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