Actionscript 3.0 looping through stage and DisplayObject items

[clem_c_rock]

Hello,
I’m trying to convert to Actionscript 3.0 and I’m trying to find out how to loop through Stage objects as well as DisplayObject.

With AS 2.0 - I would only have to do:

for(var i in _root) // or MovieClip, this, ect
{
    trace("i: " + i + " *: " + _root.*);
}

In AS 3.0 I found this equivalent which works w/ some objects:

public function debug_object(o:Object, show_all:Boolean):void
{
import flash.utils.*;
var def:XML = describeType(o);
var props:XMLList = def…variable.@name;
if(show_all) props += def…accessor.@name;

for each (var prop:String in props)
{
    trace(prop + ": " + o[prop]);
}

}

this.showChildren(Stage);

This kind of works but the o[prop] always traces undefined and it's not showing any movieClips on the stage.

I would like to be able to have the debug object function be able to take Stage and DisplayObject arguments like such:

this.debug_object(Stage, true);
this.debug_object(flash.display.DisplayObject, true);

Any ideas on how I could achieve this?

Thanks,
Clem C