How to change variable type

[Guest]

Hi I am starting to write a script to draw an image with different dimensions that I can input.

so Here is what I have so far:

// Create Window
var StartingPointWindow = new Window ("dialog", "Form");


// Add text: "Starting Point X:" to window
StartingPointWindow.add ("statictext", undefined, "Start Point X:");

var inputX=0;

//Add edit text box 
var StartPointX = StartingPointWindow.add ("edittext", undefined, inputX);

// Ready to enter text
StartPointX.active = true;


// Maximm charicters 5
StartPointX.characters = 5;


// add OK and Cancel button
StartingPointWindow .add ("button", undefined, "ok");


StartingPointWindow .add ("button", undefined, "Cancel");


if (StartingPointWindow.show () == 1)


{   
    StartingPointWindow.close(StartPointX.SAVECHANGES);


    inputX= StartPointX.contents;
 //   inputX.append (String.to Number)




   var docRef = documents.add();
   var piRef = activeDocument.pathItems;
   var pathRef = piRef.add();


//Draw line from points (X,Y) to (X,Y)
  pathRef.setEntirePath( new Array(
  new Array((inputX), (200)),
  new Array((400), (500)) ) ) ;
}
//PresrtPointX changes
 else{


StartingPointWindow.close( StartPointX.DONOTSAVECHANGES );
}

So this my starting point for some testing but the problem I seem to have is that it wont accept the inputX variable on line 48 - I think this because the edittext is saving the input number as a string? I may be wrong so any help would be appreciated.

Many Thanks

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

I doubt it's a variable type issue…! You can always parseFloat( foo ), parseInt( foo ) or Number( foo )…

You have created a window of dialog type… This must be dismissed before you can continue with your script…

Step 1 create window…

On OK collect user input data to ( Object )

Step 2 pass Object to main script function…

[CarlosCanto]

couple of issues, what you suspect is true, the value returned by the edittext is a String, so convert that to a Number.

the other thing is, in line 35, "contents" is not a valid property, change that to "text"