Loop through a model to get variables and values

Question

I use an AS model (named AppGlobals.as) to store the application variables. I need to replace the hard-coded values of the elements to ones pulled from a database. As such, I need to iterate through the model to find all the elements that match my query results and then set the value of the elements to those returned from the database query.
My current issue is that I have no clue how to iterate through the model to get the elements so that I can use them a parameters for my query. An example of AppGlobals.as follows...
package com.models
          [Bindable]
          public class AppGlobal
                    public var appAnnualMaintenanceAlert:String="The System is unavailable due to routine annual maintenance!  Please check back after 2:00 PM Eastern on  January 1, 2012!";
                    public var appAnnualMaintenanceStart:Date=new Date(2012, 11, 31, 18, 0, 0, 0);
                    public var appAnnualMaintenanceEnd:Date=new Date(2013, 0, 1, 14, 0, 0, 0);
                    public var appYearPrevious:String="2011";
                    public var appYear:String="2012";
                    public var appYearNext:String="2013";
                    public var dttm_landing_expected:String="1/1/2012 12:00:00 AM";
How can I iterate through the model to find all the var names and then match them with my query to return the corresponding values?  Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Lee

Answer 1

Hi,
"elided" and "hidden" both have UI purpose (make the UI lighter) but are quite different:
"elided" is a static attribute of property groups (readonly, and After Effects never changes the value internally).
          The children of an elided group are not necessarily elided.
"hidden" is NOT an attribute, is dynamic, and "undocumented".
          The After Effects UI hides everything that is not needed in the layer property tree (for instance the material option group is hidden when the layer is not 3D, since it is not used anyway).
          Hidden groups and properties are still there though and can be accessed by script, one can read their values and attributes, scout their property subtree, but one cannot set anything on them nor select them (in both cases an error is generated).
          And the children of a hidden group are hidden.
Since there is no attribute corresponding to "hidden", it is uneasy to know whether a property is hidden or not. I can only see a case by case "treatment".
For instance:
is myLayer.layerStyle hidden ? <===>  !myLayer.layerStyle.canSetEnabled
is myLayer.transform.xRotation hidden ? <===>  !myLayer.transform.xRotation.canSetExpression
is myLayer.mask hidden ? <===> myLayer.mask.numProperties===0
is myShapeLayer.content hidden ? <===> false (never hidden, even if empty)
etc...
Xavier.