You might prefer to use event.currentTarget.selectedItem. Then your code will look something like this:
var position:Position = event.currentTarget.selectedItem; Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "arashafrooze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:11 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Casting in flex > Hi, > I'm a flex newbie, so please bear with me ... > I have an advanced datagrid with a change property that calls a > function passing it the event. > inside the function i retrieve the selected row and cast it as an > object. then i try to cast this object as, what i call a Position > object. Even though both objects are identical in properties, My > postion object does not get populated and is assigned NULL. > I'm pasting the code to my function. > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > public function updateSelectedPosition(event:Event):void > { > var position:Position = new Position(); > var selectedItem:Object; > var selectedRow:uint = event.target.selectedCells[0].rowIndex; > selectedItem = event.currentTarget.dataProvider[selectedRow]; > position = selectedItem as Position; > } > > Thank you all so very much in advance :D > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
