Or use SWFLoader
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arpit Mathur Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Can not add a "Loader" object to a container this.rawchildren.addChild(loader) Containers can only add Flex components to the displaylist. Loader is a low level actionscript object. Using rawchildren, u can add the loader but you have to be responsible for the sizing etc. On 10/19/07, anewgene <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Hi, I am trying to add external swf into my app. Based on the doc at: http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/html/help.html? <http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/html/help.html?> content=Working_with_MovieClips_8.html I created this minimal test code (as below). But I can not make it work (Type Coercion error). The code and the error are pasted here. I have tested on both flex3beta2 and flex2hotfix3. Can someone help me out? Thanks. Lei Code: ================================================= <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx=" http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " layout="absolute" creationComplete="init()" > <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import flash.display.*; import flash.net.URLRequest; private function init():void { var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(" http://flex.org/blogs/FlexOrgRSSApplication.swf <http://flex.org/blogs/FlexOrgRSSApplication.swf> "); var ldr:Loader = new Loader() ldr.load(request); addChild(ldr); } ]]> </mx:Script> </mx:Application> ========================================= Error: [SWF] X:\cvs\test2\bin\loadertest.swf - 516,787 bytes after decompression TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent. at mx.core::Container/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingC <http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::addingC> hild()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\Container.as:3288] at mx.core::Container/addChildAt()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\Container.as:2248] at mx.core::Container/addChild ()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\Container.as:2188] at loadertest/init()[X:\cvs\test2\src\loadertest.mxml:14] at loadertest/___loadertest_Application1_creationComplete() [X:\cvs\test2\src\loadertest.mxml:2] at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8915] at mx.core::UIComponent/set initialized()[E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:1118] at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation() [E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\LayoutManager.as:69 6] at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply <http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply> () at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher2() [E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8338] at mx.core::UIComponent/callLaterDispatcher() [E:\dev\flex_3_beta2 \sdk\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8281] -- Arpit Mathur Lead Software Engineer, Comcast Interactive Media --------------------------------------- post your flex tips on http://flextips.corank.com <http://flextips.corank.com>
