Mark, glad you got it worked out. However, you need to look at the fact the Spark TextInput extends from SkinnableTextBase which contains the properties you'd expect.
Brendan On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM, mark.embrey <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Bingo! that did it! > > the final solution, in my example, is: > > text="{myDataProvider.getItemAt(0).name}" > > thanks for your help, Oleg, and to everyone who contributed to the > conversation. > > best, > > Mark > > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Oleg > Sivokon <olegsivo...@...> wrote: > > > > Hi, I think square brackets may be an obstacle here. I think they didn't > > always work, or maybe they don't work even now? Anyways, if that's an > array > > collection, you'd better use getItemAt() and if that's an XML or XMLList, > > you'd be better of with the XML / XMLList methods corresponding to what > you > > wanted to do (like child(), children() and so on). > > Also, "data" is often times used in the framework for instances of > Object, > > which is not bindable because it is not an IEvetnDispatcher. Check that > > option too. > > > > >

