thanks again Alex. Yeah, duh, I have to put in an image.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Flex container children must be IUICOmponents. Bitmap is not. You can make > it a child of a UIComponent or the source to Image if you want. > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of flexaustin > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:13 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] cannot convert flash.display::Bitmap to > mx.core.IUIComponent. > > > > > > Why would I be getting this error? > > <Canvas xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"; > width="100%" height="100%" > maxHeight="125" maxWidth="125"> > > > <Script> > <![CDATA[ > > import flare.util.Displays; > import flash.display.BitmapData; > > // Take a bitmapdata object and shove it in the bitmapholder canvas > public function shoveInBitmap( bm:BitmapData) : void > { > bitmapHolder.addChild( new Bitmap(bm) ); > } > // Clear out all children from bitmapholder canvas > public function clearBitmap() : void > { > bitmapHolder.removeAllChildren(); > } > > ]]> > </Script> > > <Group id="backGroundForZP" width="100%" height="100%" left="0" top="0" > > <Rect height="100%" width="100%" left="0" top="0" > > <fill> > <SolidColor color="0x000000" /> > </fill> > <stroke> > <SolidColorStroke color="0xCCCCCC" weight="2" /> > </stroke> > </Rect> > </Group> > > <Group id="mainBMPHolder" width="80%" height="80%" > left="{ (backGroundForZP.parent.width - mainBMPHolder.width) / 2}" > top="{ (backGroundForZP.parent.height - mainBMPHolder.height) / 2}"> > > </Group> > <Canvas id="bitmapHolder" backgroundColor="0xCCCCCC" width="100%" > height="100%"> > > </Canvas> > </Canvas> >
