Question

in my flex application im retrieving a data from database…..
(ie) price as decimal(18,4)…

Now i need to display the retrieved value in an flex text box

textbox name is price.text…
obj is object name…

i have used the following in code…it not works…

    price.text = obj.Price.toPrecision((18,4));

.kindly give ur suggestions folks….

Answer 1

Take a look at the NumberFormatter. To follow your example, you would declare a NumberFormatter like so:

<mx:NumberFormatter
    id="myNumberFormatter"
    precision="4"/> 

or in Actionscript:

var myNumberFormatter:NumberFormatter = new NumberFormatter;
myNumberFormatter.precision = 4;

Then use the NumberFormatter‘s format function on your value:

price.text = myNumberFormatter.format(obj.Price);