DataType.getAsNumber()

Flash Player 6.

Flash MX Professional 2004.

dataTypeObject.getAsNumber()

None.

A number.

Method; fetches the current value of the field and converts it to Number form, if necessary.

In this example, a field named propName that belongs to a component named myComponent is retrieved as a number, and assigned to a variable:

var dataTypeObj:mx.data.binding.DataType = myComponent.getField("propName");
var propValue:Number = dataTypeObj.getAsNumber();