User Guide

244 Chapter 6: Components Dictionary

For more information about TypedValue objects, see “TypedValue class (Flash Professional only)”

on page 244.

Returns

An array of strings describing any errors that occurred while attempting to set the new value.

Errors can occur under any of the following conditions:

• The data provided is not an acceptable type.

• The data provided cannot be converted to the data type of this field (for example, "abc"

cannot be converted to Number).

• The data is an acceptable type but does not meet the validation criteria of the field.

• The field is read-only.

Note: The actual text of an error message varies depending on the data type, formatters, and

encoders that are defined in the field’s schema.

Description

Method; sets a new value in the field, using the information in the field’s schema to process the

field. This method behaves similarly to

DataType.setAnyTypedValue(), except that it doesn’t

try as hard to convert the data to an acceptable data type. For more information, see

DataType.setAnyTypedValue().

Example

This example creates a new TypedValue object (a Boolean), and then assigns that value to a

DataType object named

field. Any errors that occur are assigned to the errors array.

import mx.data.binding.*;

var bool:TypedValue = new TypedValue (true, "Boolean");

var errors: Array = field.setTypedValue (bool);