Re: FLASH: New Flash Game

[John Croteau]

Hi Branden,


> 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.

FSCommand sends a string to the Flash plugin or ActiveX control. Just

because some browsers parse a numeric string in some cases does not mean

you shouldn't explicitly convert the the variable type to numeric.


A good way to convert a String to a number in JavaScript is with:

parseInt(String)

or

parseFloat(String)


Number doesn't work if the String includes any non-numeric even a

non-leading space.


Note, some browsers interpret JavaScript values looser than others.


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