Re: FLASH: Flash concatenates my numbers!

[Jordan L. Chilcott]

on 12/27/00 1:29 PM,

Jason_Schubringaal [dot] org

 at

Jason_Schubringaal [dot] org

wrote:


> I have created calculators a million times in Flash, but have never run across

> this and hope you can help me.

> 

> What I am doing:  A simple calculation that takes 2 numerical variables (input

> by user) and adds them together to create a third variable.  Easy, right?

> 

> What is happening:  The 2 variables input by the user are being concatenated.

> ie: 2+4=24

> 

> Apparently, Flash is thinking the variables are text strings for some reason.

> The really odd part is that an older version of this calculator works fine and

> I

> am using the exact same script and exact same input form.  What settings could

> I

> have possibly messed up?  This is not hard so it is kind of embarrassing, but

> this is really odd so I thought I would see if anyone has any idea what

> happened.

> 

> Any and all suggestions are appreciated.


If you are using Flash 5, wrap each number with a parseInt() function and

see if that does the trick for you.


jord

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