Comments on: Easy deep clone method made easier

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:00:57 +0000

Hi there, I’m very new to Actionscript and Flex and was wondering how you would use this example to clone an element and then add it as a child to a container in Flex? For example, I have a Flex4 group with some Graphic elements inside it, such as an

How would I use this method to clone the ellipse graphic and add it as a child to the Group container that its source lives in?

Thanks much.

By: jahshuwaa

jahshuwaa — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:39:07 +0000

@kris, I tested this morning with ClassB and ClassC custom class properties of my ClassA custom class. After cloning an instance of ClassA with the method above, I traced the qualifiedClassName of the clone’s ClassB and ClassC properties. The traces successfully reported “com.x.y.z.ClassB” and “com.x.y.z.ClassC”. At least in the case of this example it _seems_ like custom class properties of the cloned class object instance do retain their class identities.

By: kris

kris — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:33:36 +0000

hi.. uhm.. admin

what if one of your member properties are of a non-primitive type, or lets say of a second custom class? guess it fails due to the fact that it doesn’t really _deep_ clone?

hehe now i thought about it for several minutes and got nothing productive to say. so i’ll just submit this mean comment.

By: Bold Endeavours

Bold Endeavours — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:41:07 +0000

So far any test results?

By: W.

W. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:58:02 +0000

fucking genius!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:15:18 +0000

Hey Jiri,
Good question. I haven’t tested the performance yet, but I will do soon
Thanks
Dennis

By: jiri

jiri — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:53:18 +0000

Is this an expensive clone. I understand it is related to the size of the object being cloned, but I was wondering if you did some test?

Jiri