I'm tasked with updating a Flex project created by an outside contractor and in the Actionscript is the following chunk:
CONFIG::FLASH_10_1
{
//Some code here
}
I've never seen this type of structure before and I'm having a heck of a time trying to search for it on Google - I've found what it means in just about every programming language except AS3. Can anyone shed some light on this?
I'm pretty sure this relates to the conditional compilation features of the Flex compiler.
So, if you add a compiler argument, like this:
-define=CONFIG::FLASH_10_1
I bet that error will go away.
Although this is not the same context, to answer the question of what double colon "::" means in AS3...
It is a namespace accessor.
For example, the AS3 Vector.<T> type actually has a runtime type name of __AS3__.vec::Vector.<T>, where __AS3__.vec is the custom namespace. You can also use custom namespaces for members and access them on objects in AS3 using the syntax object.custom_namespace::membername. public and private are built in namespaces, so technically you could access public members like object.public::membername, as in:
var a:Array = [0,1];
trace(a.public::length); //prints 2
