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set type = anyObject.staticTypeOf();

Semantics Returns the type of any object it has had at compile-time. To get the type the object has at run-time use the typeOf. typeOf() and staticTypeOf() may return the same type, though.

Substitutables type Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String.

anyObject Can be any object.

Examples

Assume you have the following class structure:

A type Customer derives from a type Person and adds an additional attribute.

Now assume further you have an object of each class (aPerson and aCustomer) and the following action script:

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set aPerson = aCustomer;

typeOfaPerson will be Customer :

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set typeOfaPerson = aPerson.typeOf();

staticTypeOfaPerson will be Person , which is the type the object had originally been created with:

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set staticTypeOfaPerson = aPerson.staticTypeOf();

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