[MX] When 1 != 1

[lrhb]

I really think that either I am going crazy, or Flash is trying to kill me.

I've attached a zip containing a fla, the wddx include I use for it, and a sample WDDX file.

As you can tell from the actionscript, it looks for the value of HASVALETPARKING, traces it, confirming it's existence, and should trace the special message in the case of it being equal to 1 (if you think it might help, try "1" as well...)

Can anyone tell me why it's not working?! Please let it be something simple that I am just not seeing...

Thanks in advance!

lrhb :hat:

[lostinbeta]

I believe when you load in your XML file Flash loads the number a String not a Number, so what you will have to do is use a parseInt() to parse it back into a number. So change if (sampleWDDX.HASVALETPARKING == 1) {
trace("WE HAVE NO BANANAS");
} to if (parseInt(sampleWDDX.HASVALETPARKING) == 1) {
trace("WE HAVE NO BANANAS");
} and it works peachy.

Also, I checked out your XML file and I see you ignored whitespace on your own, which makes for quite the unreadable file....hehe. If you wish to space/indent it properly you can, you will just have to be sure to add sampleXML.ignoreWhite = true; to your Actionscript :)

[lrhb]

O' mighty lostinbeta!

I did a few more tests, such as, I did

trace(sampleWDDX.HASVALETPARKING.length);

to see what I'd get, to make sure there was only one character in there... I got "1", so I decided to try it on a different field holding some text about 8 characters long, so something like

trace(sampleWDDX.STATENAME.length);

and I got "1"! So obviously something is up with the parser, or the way it loads XML, or something... so in the end, what I ended up doing was

if (sampleWDDX.HASVALETPARKING.toString() == "1") {
trace("WE HAVE NO BANANAS");
}

and the light shone down upon me from the ActionScript Heavens, and the spirit of Colin Moock spake unto me, "It is good."

So there we have it :beam: Taking a look at the datasource, I noticed everything's coming over as a string, so I'll go ahead and use toString in this instance... but thank you! Now I know my friend parseInt will be waiting for me like a warm glove on the cold, wintery day that I need to use it.

As always, thanks for the help!

lrhb :hat:

[lostinbeta]

Hehe, glad you got everything figured out :thumb:

[ahmed]

Originally posted by lrhb
and the light shone down upon me from the ActionScript Heavens, and the spirit of Colin Moock spake unto me, "It is good."That's funny :beam:

[lrhb]

ActionScripting is a very intense experience for me ;)