object-reference as string?

Question

In java, you can get a unique string for an object.

How can you do this in as3?

Answer 1

you can use this, to get a unique uint ... if you want to, convert it to a string ... :-P

package {
    import flash.utils.Dictionary;
    public class ObjectUIDUtil {
        private static var _uids:Dictionary = new Dictionary(true);
        private static var _cter:uint = 1;
        public static function getUID(obj:Object):uint {
            var ret:uint = _uids[obj];
            return (ret == 0) ? (_uids[obj] = _cter++) : ret;
        }
    }
}

please note, that this maybe is not even necessary, since flash.utils.Dictionary allows using objects as keys directly ...

greetz

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