Comments on: How to add any AS object to a Flex Container (like a Sprite)

By: Tomas

Tomas — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:20:40 +0000

Wow! Thanks a million. I was stuck with trying to create a Sprite to draw on a canvas. Your solution made everything work just fine.

BTW, to the person that asked for an example:

// ‘g’ is the id of a canvas created with mxml
var sevenup:Sprite = new Sprite();
// draw something with the Sprite
var uicomp:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
uicomp.id = “whatever”;
uicomp.addChild(sevenup);
g.addChild(uicomp); // and it works

By: Mark Chance

Mark Chance — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:40:20 +0000

I’m trying the same thing, but all I get is a “Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference” when the code assigns a value to the align property of the stage. The same code works fine when the AS object is the main class (i.e. the file compiled with mxmlc. But blows up when included in an Application’s Panel.

By: rxeno

rxeno — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:11:57 +0000

Hello
thnx for all the info.
Do you have a working example of this Sprite integration?

thnx

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:21:14 +0000

There is one nice solution that may be useful – adding child in rawChildren. Look at example: rawChildren.addChild(yourSprite);

By: jlafferty

jlafferty — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:45:17 +0000

What specifically would you like to see? Have you tried the flex-flash integration kit? Does this bring us closer at all?

By: Brett Walker

Brett Walker — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:16:37 +0000

I’ve been doing that for a while using AS3 code (not MXML), but it’s pretty kludgy. I pine for the days when using the Flex framework with Flash-based AS3 projects is transparent.