I stand corrected. That was sloppy work by me. Of course since Bitmap extends DisplayObject it can be a child of a DisplayObjectContainer, generally speaking. Sorry for any confusion.
Dan Freiman On 5/9/07, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To be clear, you can add bitmaps as children, but you cannot add them as children of Flex containers as their children must implement IUIComponent. You can add it as a child of UIComponent and add that to a container. ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Freiman *Sent:* Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:38 AM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Drawing text to screen / bitmap You don't add bitmaps as children. Instead you draw them using the Graphics class. this.graphics.beginBitmapFill(bitmapData); this.graphics.drawRect(0,0,bitmapData.width,bitmapData.height); On 5/9/07, Mark Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I have tried the following code from Adobe's site, but I receive > the runtime error: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert > flash.display::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent.) > > > > var text:TextField = new TextField(); > > text.text = "Testing!"; > > > > var bitmapData:BitmapData = new > BitmapData(80, 20); > > bitmapData.draw(text); > > > > var bitmap:Bitmap = new > Bitmap(bitmapData); > > this.addChild(bitmap); > > > > What am I doing wrong? I called that from creationComplete in my > application. > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *On Behalf Of *Daniel Freiman > *Sent:* 09 May 2007 14:45 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Drawing text to screen / bitmap > > > > The only way to render text is through flash.text.TextField, or > StaticText. You can then draw that text into a bitmap using > flash.display.BitmapData.draw() to draw the TextField to a bitmap. > > Daniel Freiman > nondocs <http://nondocs.blogspot.com> > > On 5/9/07, *Mark Ingram* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi, is it possible to draw text to the screen or to a bitmap in Flex? > > > > > > > > > >
