im running into the same issue myself...can you not load a sprite ANYWHERE inside a panel, or just in the individual component itself?
i have a component that i can make into whatever i need, but this component rests within an VBox, which extends panel... have you found any other fixes? thanks! kasey --- In [email protected], "Giles Roadnight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After doing some digging about I found some discussion on this mailing list > saying that you couldn't load a Sprite into a Panel or something along those > lines. I changed it to a canvas instead and it's now working fine. > > > > It seems that the example on livedocs should be updated. > > > > Giles Roadnight > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Giles Roadnight > Sent: 22 December 2006 00:42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] masking with a sprite > > > > Hi > > > > I am loading swfs from a backend server that are produced by our own > renderer. If I simply load these swfs into an image the background colour > form the swf floods the whoel stag enad makes it impossible to see anything > other than the last one to load. > > > > I need to mask the swfs so we just see what we are supposed to. > > > > I found an example in the help for the DisplayObject class. It seemed to do > everything that I wanted - it used a Sprite, drew a rectangle on it, added > it as a child then set it as a mask. > > > > However when I try this when the addchild function is called saying that it > cannot convert the Sprite to a Display object: > > > > Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to > mx.core.IUIComponent. > > > > What am doing wrong? I hope someone can help. > > > > The example I was looking at is: > > > > import flash.text.TextField; > import flash.display.Sprite; > import flash.events.MouseEvent; > > var tf:TextField = new TextField(); > tf.text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, " > + "sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna > aliqua. " > tf.selectable = false; > tf.wordWrap = true; > tf.width = 150; > addChild(tf); > > var square:Sprite = new Sprite(); > square.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000); > square.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 40, 40); > addChild(square); > > tf.mask = square; > > tf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, drag); > tf.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, noDrag); > > function drag(event:MouseEvent):void { > square.startDrag(); > } > function noDrag(event:MouseEvent):void { > square.stopDrag(); > > } > > > > Giles Roadnight >
