Flash Actionscript 3 passing a number to dynamic text field

Question

On my stage I have a dynamic text field (instance name = lives). In my actionscript I have created a number variable called livesnum. And then beneath that I'm setting the textfields value to be the livesnum variable but I get the following error: ``` 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type Number to an unrelated type String. ``` My actionscript is as follows : ``` var livesnum:Number = 4; //Amount of lives lives.text = livesnum; ``` How would I achieve setting the textfield as the numeric value of the variable?

Accepted Answer

Use `toString`() function:

```
lives.text=livesnum.toString()
```

or use a cast `String()`:

```
lives.text=String(livesnum);
```

Flash Actionscript 3 passing a number to dynamic text field

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