I think you could get at your data field from wherever you need it by
referencing like so:
((customer_name as ComboBox).selectedItem as Customer).customer_id;
So for example you could bind a label to that.
T
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "George Georgiou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I got a remoteobject which loads data from an sql table. I got something
> like 5 fields for customers.
>
> I want to populate a combobox showing the name of the customer and
having
> as a value the customer_id.
>
> After Googling it a bit, I have ended up with this:
>
> <mx:ComboBox id="customer_name" dataProvider="{customerData}"
> labelField="customer_name"/>
>
> this works great! But what about the dataField? (at my suprise I
have found
> out that although a labelField does exist - which is cool, a dataField
> attribute does not exist).
>
> How can I bind the customer_id into my combobox? Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> George
>
