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Subject: RE: FLASH: When to Use (Eval)?
From: Branden Hall
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:57:25 +0100

Actually, I believe that Flash will only work with de-stringing things. I am
fairly that eval will only do that, it will not actually "compile" the code
within it. I was told this by one of the engineers for Flash, though if its
not true, I would like to know.

-= Branden J. Hall
-= Multimedia Developer / Instructor
-= Fig Leaf Software - "We've got you covered!"


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From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of John
Dowdell
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 3:47 PM
To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
Subject: Re: FLASH: When to Use (Eval)?


At 7:34 AM 6/12/0, Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media wrote:
>I'm looking for a clear explanation of when to use (Eval) and when not to
>use it. Can someone come up with a clear rule I can pass along to my
students?

I haven't tested my story on "eval" in Flash, Marc... in other environments
I've sometimes explained it as "de-string-ifying" a term, when you'd like a
string variable to be converted into the real object its letter represents.


It can be a good way of constructing a command on-the-fly because you can
combine static strings and dynamic variable values and turn it all into a
single executable line of script. It's tricky, though, because it's
abstract, and you have to really watch the quotation marks and whether
variables contain the values you expect.

But I haven't tested this story for Flash's "eval"... there may be
additional relevant factors which I haven't bumped up against yet. Is this
a good starting point for conveying it to others, though...?

jd





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