Keeping a list of floats with Javascript

I need to keep track of several float values that I want to determine at runtime: the intensities of various lights in the scene. I haven't been able to get anything working using either a float[] or an Array datastructure.
I think the closest I've come is using an Array, but when I retrieve an item it's an Object and not a float, so I can't do math on it. Are you supposed to typecast in javascript? If so, how?
These things that should be so simple are really frustrating.

 

Here's a link to the documentation on array's.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Array.html

And here's some javascript that does what you're describing, making a new array, adding two floats to it, and then printing the sum of the two.

Code (csharp):

1. var myArray = new Array ();
2. myArray.Push(8.7);
3. myArray.Push(3.9);
4. print((myArray[0] + myArray[1]).ToString());
5.  

 

Aw, sorry for not checking the docs first. I have it working now. I've been using too many different languages lately and I was mixing them up. Plus there's more than one way to do it even in just javascript. Oy.

 

How do I grab items from the array and use them in some float calculations? For me it just keeps shouting that I cannot do that because a float is not compatible with an object.

 

Don't use JS Array. http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Which_Kind_Of_Array_Or_Collection_Should_I_Use? Also this thread is absurdly old.

--Eric