Question

I’ve trawled the net trying to find a solution, but everything seems to be mxml-centric. What I want is to dynamically create a series of Graphics objects each with a child BitmapImage. However, this doesn’t seem to work:

   var bmi:BitmapImage = new BitmapImage();
   bmi.source="@Embed('custom-case.png')";
   var gr:Graphic = new Graphic( );
   gr.addElement( bmi );
   gr.x = 50;
   gr.y = 50;
   this.addElement( gr );

Whereas, this does:

   <s:Graphic x="250" y="250">
    <s:BitmapImage source="@Embed('custom-case.png')">
    </s:BitmapImage>
   </s:Graphic>

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Paul

Answer 1

it is quite different in AS3, you have to define a variable class type like shown below.

[Embed("custom-case.png")]
 private var someImage:Class;
 ...
 bmi.source=someImage;