No, the data property is just for convenience. The selectedItem property returns a reference to the entire dataProvider item.
Just do: var sCategory:String = XML(myCombo.selectedItem)[EMAIL PROTECTED]; //The XML() is needed for binding expressions but probably not here. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dnk Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:02 PM To: Flexcoder List Subject: [flexcoders] Simple question - custom labels and data fields in ComboBox Hi there.. I have been googling on this one... I have a ComboBox that has an ArrayCollection for a dataSource. Now my ArrayCollection is from a MySQL query.... Now since the ComboBox control expects the data to have a label field and a data field - it is obviously seeing my result as [Object], [Object]. Now I know I can change the label field using: labelField="@category" Now how can I do the same for the data field? My database is passing back one called "category" (using that for the label), and one called "id" (using that one for the data). Do I have to somehow write a function to convert the "id" to "data"? DNK
