Couldn't you create a sealed Category class with id and category properties? When you get your database return, you could parse the results into typed Category objects, and add them to an ArrayCollection. Set the dataProvider to this arraycollection, the labelField to category, and then later when checking the selectedItem you could do something like Category(cBox.selectedItem).id to get the id you are looking for. HTH, Ryan
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dnk Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:02 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 This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system.
