Setting a custom label function on a Flex DateField control

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx=” span style="color:#33cc00;">http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml ” layout=”vertical” verticalAlign=”middle” backgroundColor=”white”> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function dateField_labelFunc(item:Date):String { if (item == null) { return “No date”; } return item.toDateString(); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:DateField id=”dateField” labelFunction=”dateField_labelFunc” /> <mx:Label text=”{dateField.text}” selectable=”true” fontSize=”48″ fontWeight=”bold” /> </mx:Application>