ADOBE® FLEX® 3: PROGRAMMING ACTIONSCRIPT™ 3.0

ADOBE FLEX 3

Developer Guide

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When you load a SWF using an <img> tag in a text field, you can permit access to that SWF file’s data through a call

to the

Security.allowDomain() method.

When you use an

<img> tag in a text field to load an external file (as opposed to using a Bitmap class embedded

within your SWF), a Loader object is automatically created as a child of the TextField object, and the external file is

loaded into that Loader just as if you had used a Loader object in ActionScript to load the file. In this case, the

getImageReference() method returns the Loader that was automatically created. No security check is needed to

access this ...