Comments on: Embedding assets with mxmlc as flash.display.BitmapData

By: Garth Braithwaite

Garth Braithwaite — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:38:33 +0000

Awesome. I’m digging the rebrand by the way.

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:37:41 +0000

I actually do this for interactivity but the point of this post was how to get the BitmapData into the ActionScript project in the smallest form. Your example still will bring in the “asset” class as mx.core.BitmapAsset which is heavier then flash.display.BitmapData.

By: Inas Luthfi

Inas Luthfi — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:14:14 +0000

I have posted similar post like this, including useful links to other blogs discussing MXMLC asset embedding. It is at http://nascode.com/2010/02/01/embedding-asset-at-compile-time-in-pure-as3-project/.

Sorry if my english is not too good :(

By: y_nk

y_nk — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:00:15 +0000

why not using graphics.beginBitmapFill to let your clip be interactive too ? What do you think about it ?

package examples
{
static public function prepare(bmd:BitmapData):Sprite
{
var s:Sprite = new Sprite;
s.graphics.beginBitmapFill(bmd, null, false, true);
s.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, bmd.width, bmd.height);
s.graphics.endFill();

return s;
}

[Embed(source="/assets/Spinner.png")] private var asset:Class;

public class Main()
{
public function Main()
{
addChild(prepare(new asset());
}
}
}

By: Tahir Ahmed

Tahir Ahmed — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:48:33 +0000

Aahh! This is the kind of solution I was looking for 5-6 days ago when I was trying to [Embed] some image assets. FlashDevelop kept on throwing errors of not finding mx.core.BitmapAsset class for which, in the end, I had to point FlashDevelop to use framework.swc and import this unnecessary extra classes.

P.S. I just didn’t think of exporting a Bitmap using Flash CS4 IDE at all which could’ve easily worked in my case; stupid me.

- Tahir.