Prepopulate DateField with Today's Date

Question

Below is the code I currently have:
import mx.controls.*;
private function retrieveDate():void {
requestDate.text += new Date();
<mx:FormItem label="Request Date:" fontFamily="Gotham"
fontWeight="bold" fontSize="12" x="39" y="68" width="228">
<mx:DateField id="requestDate" text="{retrieveDate()}"
width="114" showToday="true" enabled="true"/>
</mx:FormItem>
I know it's got to be something simple I'm missing. Thanks in
advance for solutions!

Answer 1

I think you need to set the initial text in the app
initialize event.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
initialize="retrieveDate()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.*;
private function retrieveDate():void {
requestDate.text += new Date();
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Form>
<mx:FormItem label="Request Date:" fontFamily="Gotham"
fontWeight="bold"
fontSize="12" x="39" y="68" width="300">
<mx:DateField id="requestDate" width="300"
showToday="true" enabled="true"/>
</mx:FormItem>
</mx:Form>
</mx:Application>