'as' Keyword in Actionscript 3.0

Posted Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:17 PM by Shunjie
I am not sure if this is documented or I cannot find, but the 'as' keyword can actually work in Actionscript 3.0. I try it as I want to type cast an object from getChildByName from a Container object and cast it into a Canvas. Something like this:

import mx.core.*;
import mx.containers.*;

     var mainCanvas:Canvas =
                  main_app.getChildByName(main_app.CANVAS) as Canvas;

I tot of trying it out since I always do that in C#. Pardon me if this is already well known as I am pretty new to AS3.0. If you know where to find the documentation for AS3.0 (Except live docs), do drop a comment!
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