[vet-mm] actionscript prob

[Glenn Drew]

Michelle, you are brilliant! I suspected it was a minor setting. There is no 
kerning option in Flash 5 and was not a problem in Flash MX!?!?.
I have spent a week on this and abandoned the scripting module temporarily 
because of this and some stressed-out Yr12s, and all it was was a small 
tick. My classes have been ok with scripting in the past, provided the 
classes can be presented coherently and without confusion, hence my 
frustration and seeking help.
As  Auto-kerning was not turned on, on the teachers PC, the network ghost 
must be inconsistent (not a ghost?). Not surprised as there are some other 
inconsistencies with our Adobe CS3 settings also.

Thank you very much. Yet again shows the value of this listing.

Glenn Drew




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michelle Dennis" <mdennis at mentonegirls.vic.edu.au>
To: "VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List" <vet-mm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:46 PM
Subject: RE: [vet-mm] actionscript prob


> Hi,
>
> There's nothing wrong with the code - it's an easy fix!
>
> Just untick autokern on both of your input boxes.
>
> Michelle Dennis
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: vet-mm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Glenn Drew
> Sent: Thu 11/09/2008 6:24 PM
> To: VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: [vet-mm] actionscript prob
>
>
> Speaking of scripting - I have an odd issue with Flash CS3 (AS 2.0) and a 
> simple piece of scripting I have used many times before.
>
>
> A simple and crude calculator
> Create 2 input text boxes with variable names, 'num1' and 'num 2' 
> respectively.
> Create a dynamic text box with the variable name 'answer'.
> A button with the following script
>
> on (press) {
> answer = Number(num1) + Number(num2); //Adds 2 numbers entered into num1 
> and num2, converting num1 & 2 from strings to numbers
> }
>
> It produces the correct output on a teachers PC eg 2 + 3 =5, but not on 
> the students or my laptop where it produces NaN (Not a number).
> A check of the datatypes using 'trace(typeof(num1)); etc, shows that num1 
> and num2 remain as strings.
>
> A trace(answer) command shows a lot of html code?!?!?
> It appears different machines compile them differently, is there a setting 
> or formatting I am not finding??
>
> Any clues, anyone?
> Glenn Drew
>
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