DataType.getAsString()

Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).

Flash MX Professional 2004.

dataTypeObject.getAsString()

None.

A string.

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

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

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