Alan:
I just picked up essential actionscript 3 and this sort of issue is
addressed on page 657 and already solved my issue.
i don't know why adobe left the mx.core.bitmap asset out of flash cs3
all together but at least i learned how to compile flash actionscript 3
with the bare minimum flex classes.
Thanks for your time.
Patrick
Alan Watts wrote:
I've never had any problems using this function to return an embedded
asset as a bitmap which I can then manipulate or attach.
The getQualifiedSuperclassName if-statement is there because I have
some assets with scale-9 enabled and they are returned as sprites, so
I convert them first.
public static function
getInterfaceAssetasBitmap(interfaceAsset:String):Bitmap {
var assetClass:Class = getDefinitionByName(interfaceAsset) as Class;
var returnBitmap:Bitmap;
if (
getQualifiedSuperclassName(assetClass)=="mx.core::SpriteAsset") {
var asset:Sprite = new assetClass();
var bitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(asset.width,
asset.height, true, 0x00FFFFFF);
bitmapData.draw(asset);
returnBitmap.bitmapData=bitmapData;
} else if (
getQualifiedSuperclassName(assetClass)=="mx.core::BitmapAsset") {
returnBitmap = new assetClass();
}
return(returnBitmap);
}
Hope it helps,
Alan
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