well are you getting this from a Database, if you are then you may be able to use the RemoteClass metadata?
----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 2:12:48 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? actually, the link was http://casario. blogs.com/ mmworld/2007/ 04/casting_ a_datag.html it's a very simple example of exactly what I'm trying to do. d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com> wrote: i've seen other examples of this working.. http://casario. blogs.com/ mmworld/2007/ 04/passing_ actions.html i tried setting it a property at a time and that of course works- but i'll have to write much more code and it will be harder to maintain. thanks, d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Sherif Abdou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: Ok i think you can't do that since I am looking at Adobe Flex Professional 2.0 wrox book and they have a similar example and what they did was EmployeeVO.employee ID = objectName.employee ID; ----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 1:51:08 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? ok, here is EmployeeVO.as package com.winn.vo { [Bindable] public class EmployeeVO { public var employeeID:uint; public var roleID:Number; public var employeeTypeID: Number; public var employeeStatusID: Number; } } then in my mxml file i have a simple datagrid <mx:DataGrid id="employeeDataGrid" width="100%" height="100%" dataProvider="{ EmployeesModel. getInstance( ).employeesList }" > with a click listener employeeDataGrid. addEventListener ( MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler ); and here is clickHandler public function clickHandler( event:MouseEvent ):void { var testVO:EmployeeVO = EmployeeVO(event. currentTarget. selectedItem) ; Alert.show(testVO. employeeID. toString( )); } and the selectedItem has these properties.. . employeeID = 1830 [0x726] employeeStatusID = 2 employeeTypeID = 1 mx_internal_ uid = "D3C...." roleID = 3 On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Sherif Abdou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: can you give me a bit of code and I'll look at it so i can compile the examples ----- Original Message ---- From: Derrick Anderson <no.way.this. is.in.use@ gmail.com> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Sent: Monday, June 9, 2008 1:21:51 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] new to VO's, why won't this cast? i tried your first suggestion, the second one I had already tried- at least with this one I get an error TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert [EMAIL PROTECTED] to com.winn.vo. EmployeeVO. Still the same question though, the datatypes seem to be compatible- so why the error? thanks, d. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Jon Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] l.com> wrote: On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Derrick Anderson wrote: var testVO:EmployeeVO = DataGrid(event. currentTarget) .selectedItem as EmployeeVO; Maybe this will help: var testVO:EmployeeVO = EmployeeVO(event. currentTarget. selectedItem) ; or var testVO:EmployeeVO = event.currentTarget .selectedItem as EmployeeVO; good luck, jon

