global

Methods:

alert, confirm, decodeURI, decodeURIComponent, encodeURI, encodeURIComponent, escape, eval, isFinite, isNaN, isXMLName, localize, parseFloat, parseInt, prompt, setDefaultXMLNamespace, unescape, uneval

Objects:

Application, Number,

Property Listing

Method Listing

undefined alert (message:String, [title:String], errorIcon:Boolean=Boolean)

Displays an alert box

Boolean confirm (message:String, noAsDefault:Boolean=Boolean, [title:String])

Displays an alert box with Yes and No buttons; returns true for Yes

String decodeURI (uri:String)

Decodes a string created with encodeURI().

String decodeURIComponent (uri:String)

Decodes a string created with encodeURIComponent().

String encodeURI (text:String)

Encodes a string after RFC2396.

Create an UTF-8 ASCII encoded version of this string. The string is converted into UTF-8. Every non-alphanumeric character is encoded as a percent escape character of the form %xx, where xx is the hex value of the character. After the conversion to UTF-8 encoding and escaping, it is guaranteed that the string does not contain characters codes greater than 127. The list of characters not to be encoded is -_.!~*'();/?:@&=+$,#. The method returns false on errors.

String encodeURIComponent (text:String)

Encodes a string after RFC2396.

Create an UTF-8 ASCII encoded version of this string. The string is converted into UTF-8. Every non-alphanumeric character is encoded as a percent escape character of the form %xx, where xx is the hex value of the character. After the conversion to UTF-8 encoding and escaping, it is guaranteed that the string does not contain characters codes greater than 127. The list of characters not to be encoded is -_.!~*'(). The method returns false on errors.

String escape (aString:String)

Creates a URL-encoded string from aString.

In the new string, characters of aString that require URL encoding are replaced with the format %xx, where xx is the hexadecimal value of the character code in the Unicode character set. This format is used to transmit information appended to a URL during, for example, execution of the GET method. Use the unescape() global function to translate the string back into its original format. Returns a string which is aString URL-encoded.

Varies eval (stringExpression:String)

Evaluates its argument as a JavaScript script, and returns the result of evaluation.

You can pass the result of an object's toSource() method to reconstruct that object.

Boolean isFinite (expression:Number)

Evaluates an expression and reports whether the result is a finite number.

Returns true if the expression is a finite number, false otherwise. False if the value is infinity or negative infinity.

Boolean isNaN (expression:Number)

Evaluates an expression and reports whether the result is "Not-a-Number" (NaN).

Returns true if the result of evaluation is not a number (NaN), false if the value is a number.

Boolean isXMLName (name:String)

Returns true if the supplied string is a valid XML name.

String localize (what:String, [argument:Varies])

Localizes a ZString-encoded string and merges additional arguments into the string.

Number parseFloat (text:String)

Extracts a floating-point number from a string.

Parses a string to find the first set of characters that can be converted to a floating point number, and returns that number, or NaN if it does not encounter characters that it can converted to a number. The function supports exponential notation.

Number parseInt (text:String, [base:Number])

Extracts an integer from a string.

Parses a string to find the first set of characters, in a specified base, that can be converted to an integer, and returns that integer, or NaN if it does not encounter characters that it can convert to a number.

String prompt (prompt:String, [default:String], [title:String])

Displays a dialog allowing the user to enter text

Returns null if the user cancelled the dialog, the text otherwise

undefined setDefaultXMLNamespace (namespace:Namespace)

Defines the default XML namespace.

This is a replacement function for the standard JavaScript statement set default xml namespace.

String unescape (stringExpression:String)

Translates URL-encoded string into a regular string, and returns that string.

Use the escape() global function to URL-encode strings.

String uneval (what:Varies)

Creates a source code representation of the supplied argument, and returns it as a string.