[flexcoders] Problems accessing a class method from an mxml file

[justSteve]

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...