Hi all,
So I have been charged with creating icons on the fly for various components
of a RIA. The idea is that you can switch between views by selecting thumbnails
of the views. I don't want to capture the entire stage for the iconification as
that would include branding: mainly I just want to be able to pass in the
relevant view component and build an icon from that.
It's going pretty well: basically I just use bitmapData's draw method to
render a component into a byte buffer which can then be manipulated for various
thumbnailing needs. However, this only caputures the elements inside the
component. Stuff behind it, like the background gradient, doesn't show up. This
is a bit distracting so I would like to find a way around it. Any ideas about
how to capture the background gradient using the draw() method? I'm not even
sure how I would reference it as an object to pass in for the draw operation.
Any help is appreciated.
-Sam

"baddcafe" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> So I have been charged with creating icons on the fly for various
> components
> of a RIA. The idea is that you can switch between views by selecting
> thumbnails
> of the views. I don't want to capture the entire stage for the
> iconification as
> that would include branding: mainly I just want to be able to pass in the
> relevant view component and build an icon from that.
> It's going pretty well: basically I just use bitmapData's draw method to
> render a component into a byte buffer which can then be manipulated for
> various
> thumbnailing needs. However, this only caputures the elements inside the
> component. Stuff behind it, like the background gradient, doesn't show up.
> This
> is a bit distracting so I would like to find a way around it. Any ideas
> about
> how to capture the background gradient using the draw() method? I'm not
> even
> sure how I would reference it as an object to pass in for the draw
> operation.
> Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried using ImageSnapshot?