Re: FLASH: New Flash Game

[Branden Hall]

Thanks for the input ya'll, I just got the @*#&$^ thing to work with all

4.0+ browsers.

For ya'll who don't know the game I wrote worked fine in IE4, and N4.5,

but would not work in N4.0-N4.07.  Since it is an oddball javascript bug

that other people may run into I'll explain:

    Apparently in N4.0-N4.07 the passed in argument of a FS command is

rigidly set to being a string, and nothing that I have found will

convert it to a number, not the Number function, not the usual x=x-0,

not using a second variable (i.e.  blah=arg), not even converting the

second variable using either Number or the x=x-0 method, nothing.  Now

here is where my program was screwing up, it was trying to use that

argument directly to index an array, (i.e.  x=blah[arg];) thus since the

argument was a string, and not the expected integer javascript was

giving up without even the usual error barf.  I solved the problem by

using another variable and just using a few if statements. Setting the

temp to be the numerical equivalent of the argument passed in.  (i.e.

if (arg=="1") { temp=1; } ) and then using the temp variable where I was

directly using the argument fixed the problem immediately.


For some reason IE4 and N4.5 does not set the argument to be a certain

type and keeps it loosely typed as the javascript spec says variables

are supposed to be.  Oh well, after putzing with this thing for hours

now I am *finally* going to go to sleep!  Everyone please check out the

game, even those of you who have already seen it because I have also

updated the SWF! Here is the URL again for ya'll who may have missed it:


http://www.wam.umd.edu/~bjhall/work.html

Click on the Master Mind link at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for being the best developer list I have ever been on ya'll!


--

-=Branden J. Hall=-

Webmaster, Campus Recreation Services

University of Maryland, College Park

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~bjhall/




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