Alex, thanks for that awesome explanation, I really appreciate it. I tried casting to my model as you suggest {MyModel(data).field} but for some reason FlashBuilder won't resolve the MyModel class, even though it uses the same class elsewhere in the mxml file just fine.
For now I'm going with set data. Dave -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/DG-class-is-not-an-IEventDispatcher-tp9124p9146.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.