creating instance of random library item

[cresquin]

I am trying to add 4 items to stage from the library, "Plane0", "Plane1"..."Plane3". Each uses a base class of "com.Plane", and an auto-generated class for itself (named "Plane0"..."Plane3").

com.Plane takes 4 parameters.

I use the following code to get the items on stage:

// getDefinitionById is imported
for (var i:int = 0, i < 4, i++){
    var planeName:String =  "Plane" + i;
    var ClassReference:Class = getDefinitionByName(planeName) as Class;
    var myPlane:Plane = new ClassReference("param0","param1","param2","param3");
    addChild(myPlane);
} 

but I get the following error:

ArgumentError: Error #1063: Argument count mismatch on Plane0$iinit(). Expected 0, got 4.

what am I missing here?

[5TonsOfFlax]

I think that unless you manually add a different constructor to your generated classes, they get a no-argument constructor.
I'd create an init method that takes your 4 arguments and call that after constructing the new obj.

[cancerinform]

for (var i=0; i<4; i++)
{
    var _Class:Object = getDefinitionByName("Plane") as Class;
    var myPlane:Plane = new _Class();
    myPlane.name = "param"+i;
    myPlane.x=i*90;
    addChild (myPlane);
} 

[cresquin]

CI, That's not quite what I was trying to do, that the "params" and teh number of loops were the same was a coincidence, what I was trying to do was more like:

for (var i=0; i<4; i++)
{
    var _Class:Object = getDefinitionByName("Plane") as Class;
    var myPlane:Plane = new _Class();
    myPlane.param0 = "param0";
    myPlane.param1 = "param1";
    myPlane.param2 = "param2";
    myPlane.param3 = "param3";
    myPlane.x=i*90;
    addChild (myPlane);
} 

That's pretty much what I ended up doing, I was just hoping I could pass in my parameters through the constructor... Why? fewer lines of code perhaps. but it works just fine this way, so thank you.