What doc was this in? It won't work if 'this' is a Flex Container, because a Container expects that its children are IUIComponents. If you're putting an image into a Flex Container, you should be using a Flex Image control, not a low-level Flash Loader. - Gordon
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronnlixx Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] loading image with AS and Loader I'm trying this example from the documentation: var pictLdr:Loader = new Loader(); var pictURL:String = "banana.jpg" var pictURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(pictURL); pictLdr.load(pictURLReq); this.addChild(pictLdr); I'm trying it in my creationComplete callback and get this error: cannot coerce the Loader into an IUIComponent. What am I doing wrong here?

