Question

I’m getting getting a PNG image stored in SQL through a WCF get call. The image is encoded as a base64 string and delivered to my AS3 code. I need to extract the image from the data and show it on the scene.
Among other things, I have also tried this…

    var imgArray:ByteArray = Base64.decodeToByteArray(responseXML.ImageObject);
var myRect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(100,100,200,200);
var bmd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(200,200,true,0xAAAAAAAA);
bmd.setPixels(myRect, imgArray);
var image:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd,"auto",true);
this.addChild(image);

but to no avail.
HELP!

Answer 1

why don’t you use a loader and loadbytes? It’s native.

var loader:Loader = new Loader();
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleLoad)
loader.loadbytes(byteArray);

private function handleLoad(e:Event):void {
  var loader:Loader = e.currentTarget as Loader;
  // removelistener,etc

  trace(loader.content as Bitmap);
}

The problem with your code is that PNG is compressed, bitmap is uncompressed.