Boolean class

Availability

Flash Player 5 (became a native object in Flash Player 6, which improved performance significantly).

Description

The Boolean class is a wrapper object with the same functionality as the standard JavaScript Boolean object. Use the Boolean class to retrieve the primitive data type or string representation of a Boolean object.

You must use the constructor new Boolean() to create a Boolean object before calling its methods.

Method summary for the Boolean class

Method	Description
`Boolean.toString()`	Returns the string representation `("true"` or `"false")` of the Boolean object.
`Boolean.valueOf()`	Returns the primitive value type of the specified Boolean object.

Constructor for the Boolean class

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

new Boolean([x])

Parameters

x Any expression. This parameter is optional.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Constructor; creates a Boolean object. If you omit the x parameter, the Boolean object is initialized with a value of false. If you specify a value for the x parameter, the method evaluates it and returns the result as a Boolean value according to the rules in the Boolean() function.

Example

The following code creates a new empty Boolean object called myBoolean.

myBoolean = new Boolean();