There's a CachedLabel class that does what I think you're looking to do
as part of Ely Greenfield's Fisheye Component
<http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/fisheye-component/> .
Should be a good starting point.
--- In [email protected], "honoraryvato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Is there as way in Flex 2 for me to cast a Label as a Bitmap or to
> make a Bitmap copy of a Label? I have a Panel that fades in and out.
> On that Panel is a Label. Since the font is not embeded the text in
> the Label stays where it is and does not fade. I do not want to embed
> the font. I need to make is a Bitmap so it can fade in and out. Does
> anyone know how to do this or have a piece of code I can take a look
at?
>
