java uploader calls progress func with java object, not string

using FF, WinXP:

in the javascript progress-handler function example -

ImageUploader_Progress(Status, Progress ... )

if one does "typeof Status" one gets "object" - it's often automatically recast as string depending on what javascript is using it, but for example a switch(Status) { case: 'COMPLETE' } will fail because it evidently remains an object.

If one attempts to call functions such as valueOf(), one gets a javascript error about the JAVA class not having that function defined, ie it looks like "Status" is actually a reference to a java string object...

I'm not at all a java programmer, but maybe it can be passed as a plain string to make things a touch easier in javascript.

I ended up using a hash (associative array) to get javascript to allow me to use it in the switch/case structure.

Hugh