Clone an Image in Flex (with flash.display.Loader)

One could think that Adobe's developers have already come up with a standard method to clone images by now. But NO - Nothing comes without a headache in Flash... The solution is to get hold of the bitmapData. In case you are using a Loader Class to load the image, the loader.content can be casted to a Bitmap Class Object. This Bitmap holds the raw bitmapData which can now be cloned:

Method:

var bitmap:Bitmap;
bitmap = this._loader.content as Bitmap;
this.originalWrapper.rawChildren.addChild(bitmap);
 
// clone the image
var clone:Bitmap;
clone = new Bitmap(Bitmap(this._loader.content).bitmapData);	

Hurray! We managed to copy one pixel array to another :-)

Example:

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