Re: [Flashcoders] cast string to a boolean value

2005-10-28 Thread Steve Mathews
Try: var my_bool:Boolean = flashvar_bool==false?false:true; The basic problem is creating a Boolean with any string makes it true. So creating it with the string false still makes it true. On 10/28/05, Matt Ganz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi. i'm receiving FlashVars in my object and embed code

Re: [Flashcoders] cast string to a boolean value

2005-10-28 Thread Ian Thomas
What's wrong with the following? var my_bool:Boolean=(flashvar_bool==true); Ian On 10/28/05, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try: var my_bool:Boolean = flashvar_bool==false?false:true; The basic problem is creating a Boolean with any string makes it true. So creating it with the

Re: [Flashcoders] cast string to a boolean value

2005-10-28 Thread Matt Ganz
both methods work nicely. thank you. On 10/28/05, Ian Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with the following? var my_bool:Boolean=(flashvar_bool==true); Ian On 10/28/05, Steve Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try: var my_bool:Boolean = flashvar_bool==false?false:true;

Re: [Flashcoders] cast string to a boolean value

2005-10-28 Thread Cedric Muller
sorry about my previous example ;) can't your receive 1 and 0 instead of true/false ? this works: var my_boolean_string:String = 1; var my_boolean:Boolean = Boolean(Number(my_boolean_string)); if(my_boolean == true) { trace(cool); } else { trace(nope); } Cedric Try: var