I've got a bitmap and I want to add it to a VBox.

How do I convert the bitmap to a display object that implements the IUIComponent interface?

Doug

var uic:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
uic.addChild(myBitmap);
addChild(uic);

Yes all the explanations in the docs are like this, but this assumes that I am
writing this in a class that extends the Sprite class, which I am not and then
what exactly do you add to the VBox? Because you can't add the Sprite that then
exists.

I have found that this works directly however:

var content:Image = new Image();
content.addChild(myBitmap);
content.height = myBitmap.height;
content.width = myBitmap.width;
myVBox.addChild(content);

Is there some reason why this incredibly simple way of doing this is not
documented somewhere?

Doug

You can do this in the <script> tag of an mxml document.