User Guide

182 ActionScript language elements
This operator is also used to mark blocks of contiguous code associated with flow control
statements (
for, while, if, else, switch) and functions.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5
Operands
object : Object - The object to create. name1,2,...N The names of the properties.
value1,2,...N
The corresponding values for each name property.
Returns
Object -
Usage 1: An Object object.
Usage 2: Nothing, except when a function has an explicit
return statement, in which case the
return type is specified in the function implementation.
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 account and initializes the properties name,
address, city, state, zip, and balance with accompanying values:
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]);
}
The following example shows how array and object initializers can be nested within each
other:
var person:Object = {name:"Gina Vechio", children:["Ruby", "Chickie",
"Puppa"]};
The following example uses the information in the previous example and produces the same
result using constructor functions:
var person:Object = new Object();
person.name = "Gina Vechio";
person.children = new Array();
person.children[0] = "Ruby";
person.children[1] = "Chickie";
person.children[2] = "Puppa";