I'd avoid loading foreign content as the backgroundImage. If that server goes down, your app will look very different. If you really want to, then it might be easier to put an Image behind all of the other children and not use backgroundImage
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 rdibona Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 11:15 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] canvas backgroundimage loadercontext Hi there, I have an application where I take a "snapshot" of a Canvas with various other images on it using the bitmapdata.draw method. I had to change my code to use a LoaderContext for each image load to avoid security errors, i.e.: var lc : LoaderContext; var img : Image; img = new Image(); lc = new LoaderContext(true); img.loaderContext = lc; img.load(src); This has worked fine. However, I cannot figure out how to avoid a security error when setting the backgroundImage style for a canvas, as it expects a URL directly with no opportunity to specify another image as the value. It does say you can specify a class, but how do you cast an image into a compatible class? The images I am dealing with are dynamically loaded at run-time so there is no opportunity to use the Embed directive. Thanks, Rich
