December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
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Index | 1039
Number class, 714
methods
toString( ), 716
properties
MAX_VALUE, 81, 715
MIN_VALUE, 81, 715
NaN, 716
NEGATIVE_INFINITY, 716
POSITIVE_INFINITY, 716
number datatype, 78–83
converting datatypes to, 68, 70, 117
converting strings to, 79
equality rules for, 122
floating-point literals, 79
Infinity/–Infinity global properties, 82
integer literals, 79
maximum/minimum values, 81
NaN (Not-a-Number), 81
using operators, 83
numbers
absolute value, computing, 601
comparing, 127
determining an angle based on a
point, 603
natural logarithm, computing, 608
raising to a specified power, 610
random, generating, 611
rounding down to previous integer, 606
rounding up to next integer, 604
truncating decimal portion of, 553
number-to-string conversion (example), 46
numeric literals, 78
O
Object( ) constructor, 278
Flash 5, 990
Object Actions (Actions panel title), 400
Object class, 717
methods
addProperty( ), 718
hasOwnProperty( ), 723
registerClass( ) class method, 725
toString( ), 730, 991
unwatch( ), 731
valueOf( ), 731
watch( ), 732
properties
constructor, 723
__proto__, 305, 725
object initializers ({ }), 18, 146
object methods
with statement and, 152
object properties, 277
dot (.) operator and, 139
for-in loops and, 170
<OBJECT> tag (HTML), 1014
object-oriented programming (OOP), 19,
274–325
books, 965
classes and, 281–300
polymorphism, ...
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