While not precisely intuitive, that is expected behavior. I looked for a technical explanation but didn't find one immediately. As I recall, it is because the argument to the Boolean() cast is an object, and an object containing a string is always true. It would be false if the object were null.
Use this instead: (myString == "true") Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marvin Froeder Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Strange behavior.... I'm making some test with Boolean Flex cast. See: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " layout="absolute" initialize="main()" > <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function main():void { trace("Boolean: " + Boolean("true")); trace("Boolean: " + Boolean("false")); } ]]> </mx:Script> </mx:Application> I expect true and false on console. But I got: [SWF] C:\framework\workspace\CobaiaFlex\bin\BooleanTest.swf - 445.501 bytes after decompression Boolean: true Boolean: true What happened? Marvin
