Well, I wonder how Flash player 10 is going to figure in this. Nice demos in the preview.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Thompson To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:52 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Will Papervision 3D be available for use in Flex Builder 3 ??? The Papervision 3D project seems to be going forward in sputters, but the Action Script 3.0 examples look extremely promising. Will this library and any nice physics and mathematics libraries be included in Flex Builder 3 soon ? Abdul Qabiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK, Number (x) would return NaN as soon as it finds any character that's digit/number... Where as parseFloat (x) does some effort to find out the number until it encounters NaN character... -abdul On 10/31/07, reflexactions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks anyway for the reply, though I wasnt really asking what the difference is between Number and parseFloat I was asking more specifically about the difference between Number and parseFloats string parsing capabilities. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Abdul Qabiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there anything that Number() parses that parseFloat doesnt? > > > > There are differences:- > > 1) Number is type where as parseFloat () is a global-function > 2) Number (x) tries to cast x to Number where as parseFloat (x) reads, or * > parses*, and returns the numbers in a string until it reaches a character. > > We use Number for typing, casting generally. > > Does that make sense? > > > On 10/31/07, reflexactions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just looking at parsing strings into a Number i.e. > > parseFloat(string) or Number(string) > > > > It seems to me that parseFloat does everything Number does plus a > > little bit more (it will accept trailing non-numeric characters). > > > > Is there anything that Number() parses that parseFloat doesnt? > > > > tks > > > > > > > > > > -- > -abdul > --------------------------------------- > http://abdulqabiz.com/blog/ > --------------------------------------- > -- -abdul --------------------------------------- http://abdulqabiz.com/blog/ --------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com