Collect class hierarchy of Flex application

Question

I was wondering: If I have built a Flex application, is it possible to somehow collect it's class hierarchy using reflection or some other method? For example if I have defined components: CustomButton which derives from Button and RedCustomButton which derives from CustomButton. Is it possible to get a result like: "Button <- CustomButton <- RedCustomButton"?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

You can use describeType

trace(describeType(UIComponent));

public function describeType(value:*):XML Reference from Adobe Help

Produces an XML object that describes the ActionScript object named as the parameter of the method. This method implements the programming concept of reflection for the ActionScript language.

Also I recommend you to use Spicelib Reflect library.