var X = "false"
CF.widget('Power').visible = X

I have tried
var X = 'false'
CF.widget('Power').visible = 'X'
CF.widget('Power').visible = "X"

I do hope you realize that for a boolean variable, you use keywords true and false without either quotes or apostrophes. You are assigning a string to variable X.

The 'visible' property of a widget alwaysexpects a boolean. When a string is coerced to a boolean, the only way it will return false is if the string is empty "", even a single space will return true.

If you really want to try/test things out in javascript (your first bug is in the value you assigned), I recommend

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var X = false;

// See notes below
//CF.widget("Power").visible = X;
// Recommend using GUI.widget()
GUI.widget("Power").visible = X;

There are also subtle differences between GUI.widget("Power") and CF.widget("Power"). GUI.widget always returns the widget from the current page. CF.widget is able to retrieve widgets across the ConfigurationFile.

LRM - This line assigns the string "false" to the visible property - No Good.

LRM - Both of the lines below assign string "X" to the visible property - No Good.

so on page load I have

System.setGlobal("x", '0');
System.setGlobal("y", 'false');

from a button I call,

var x = parseInt(System.getGlobal('x'))
var y = System.getGlobal('y')
function func()
{
if (x <= 1) {
x = x+1;
GUI.widget('Overlay_Pannel_'+x).visible = y;
scheduleAfter(1, func);
} else {
System.setGlobal("x", 0);
System.setGlobal("y", true);
}}
scheduleAfter(1, func);

System.setGlobal("y", false); this does not work, when I retrieve it it comes through as "Null". Not entirely sure I need to do this, var x = parseInt(System.getGlobal('x')) and just do var x = System.getGlobal('x'). Not sure which way is best to set a number, I have seen examples that do it differently, such as System.setGlobal("x", '0'); or System.setGlobal("x", "0"); or System.setGlobal("x", 0);

To me, your last post is complete rhetoric and again full of errors

System.setGlobal('x', 0) // Will NEVER work as number 0 is not a string.
System.setGlobal('y', true) // will NEVER work as boolean true is not a string.

Are you sure that you fully understand the difference between a string and a boolean in JavaScript? Have you reviewed the DEV Guide to know when to use which type?


If you want to convert between string and boolean/number types then you can do something like this.

var txt = "true";
// bool will only be true if txt is a string with an exact value of 'true'.
var bool = (txt === "true");
var txt2 = "" + bool;

var itxt = "123';
var int = parseInt(iTxt, 10)
var itxt2 = "" + int

I'm sorry, I am trying to learn but I have to learn it my way for I do not understand a lot of it, I'm not a code guy and having a lot of issues, I learn by looking at example, so sorry for asking lots of dumb questions.

I don't understand what is the difference between System.setGlobal("x", '0'); and System.setGlobal("x", "0")

on your example, what is to 10 for and do?
var int = parseInt(iTxt, 10)

as you statted,
var txt = "true";
// bool will only be true if txt is a string with an exact value of 'true'.
var bool = (txt === "true");
var txt2 = "" + bool;
but bool will not always be 'true'. I don't understand your example. I am trying to do with global variables as well. so var txt = "true"; does not help me achieve my goal.

I understand the number part I would like help getting true or false part working?
setting global value with the following
System.setGlobal("y", 'false');
and or
System.setGlobal("y", 'true');
based on what the current state of something.
I believe that it correct,
Call with,
var y = System.getGlobal("y")
how do I convert y then so I can use it in,
GUI.widget('Overlay_Pannel_'+x).visible = y;

There is absolutely no difference between '0' and "0". In Javascript, strings can have either apostrophe or quote wrappers.

I strongly recommend you bookmark and use this site.

[Link: developer.mozilla.org]

The 10 is the 2nd parameter which is a radix. If you omit the 10, then it will default to that.

parseInt("10", 10) // results in 10.
parseInt("10", 16) // results in 16 as you are treating the string as a hexadecimal representation.

With regard to how to convert a string to a boolean, I provided the exact example you needed and how to do that conversion in my example.

GUI.widget('Overlay_Pannel_'+x).visible = (y === 'true');

Put this text in a button, simulate the config and review the ProntoScript Console please.

The conditions (txt === 'true') or (numberVal && true) evaluate to a boolean of either true or false depending on the value of txt or numberVal at the time of execution.


System.setDebugMask(9);

var boolVar, txt,numberVar;

txt = "Mike"
boolVar = (txt === 'true') // results boolVar being boolean value of false.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

txt = 'false';
boolVar = (txt === 'true') // results boolVar being boolean value of false.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

txt = 'true'
boolVar = (txt === 'true') // results boolVar being boolean value of true.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

txt = "TRUE"
boolVar = (txt.toLowerCase() === 'true') // results boolVar being boolean value of true.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

numberVal = 123;
boolVar = Boolean(numberVal) // any non-zero numeric value is considered boolean true.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

numberVal = 0;
boolVar = Boolean(numberVal) // any non-zero numeric value is considered boolean true.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

numberVal = -1;
boolVar = Boolean(numberVal) // any non-zero numeric value is considered boolean true.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));

numberVal = -1;
boolVar = (numberVal && true)
// here, numberVal is converted to boolean using type coercion because of the
// logical AND && - as above, any non-zero numeric value is considered boolean
// true.
System.print("boolVar:" + boolVar + " typeof(boolVar):" + typeof(boolVar));


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