object-reference as string?

Question

In java, you can get a unique string for an object.

How can you do this in as3?

Answer 1

in the same vain as the responses on the java thread, the is a unique ID generator as part of the flex SDK. This is found under mx.utils.UIDUtil, it works fairly simply.

var ID:String  = UIDUtil.createUID();

Hope this helps.