Difficulty displaying numeric info in text field

Question

I'm trying to display the playheadTime of an FLV movie
(called vid_player) on the stage in a test field (called
myTextField). I used to be able to do this in older actionscript,
but with AS3, I'm having a heck of a time. Here's my code:
function getCurrentTime(evt:MouseEvent):void {
var currentTime:Number = this.vid_player.playheadTime;
this.myTextField = currentTime;
step3Tab.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, getCurrentTime);
I get this error:
1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type Number to an
unrelated type flash.text:TextField.

Answer 1

I don't think you've quite been able to do this in previous
versions! The error is telling you exactly what is wrong. You are
trying to change a TextField into a Number and that just won't
work.
I haven't done enough with AS3 to be sure off the top of my
head if it changed or not, but I think you want the text or the
htmlText property of the text field.
this.myTextField.text=currentTime;
or if it doesn't like that you may need to cast or convert
the currentTime to a string;
this.myTextField.text=String(currentTime);
this.myTextField.text=currentTime.toString();