maybe try this? var newClass:className = new className(); var _nav:String = className.getData()
----- Original Message ---- From: Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:58:04 AM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Problems accessing a class method from an mxml file What is your declaration of _nav? The compiler apparently thinks it has type Class, rather than the type of the class you've written. Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:flexcoders@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of justSteve Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 6:42 AM To: flexcoders Subject: [flexcoders] Problems accessing a class method from an mxml file I have a public class that defines a method as: public function getData( ):String { return "mData"; } In an mxml file, I've imported that package and attempt to call ( _nav = getData(); ) but get '1061: Call to a possibly undefined method getData through a reference with static type Class.' I've tried fully qualifying the object (_nav = com.myObject. getData() ; ) with the same result. Obviously I'm missing something very, very basic. thx --steve...

