Can I use sprites on images in Flash?

Question

Hi, I'm designing a calculator-like application in Flash for a school IT project. I made the layout in photoshop, and want to lay out the buttons with sprites (was just on CSS so addicted to those things xD ). I've tried googling and have found something like you can use sprites like buttons (which is good), but I can't figure out how to apply bitmaps to sprite backgrounds vs. plain colors. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

It doesn't have an event listener then, though? Like there's no automatic button down state; if I wanted to use it I'd have to do mouseUp and mouseOut and mouseDown events separately right?
By the way, it's just for confirmation. I found a work around, using my own code. Essentially, you set the source image (eg "BImage" in library) and this function returns a bitmap image
function getSprite(imageSource, xPosition, yPosition, widthValue, heightValue):Bitmap {
          var bitmapOfSource:Bitmap = new Bitmap(new imageSource); //converts the image in the library to a bitmap file/variable/object
         var bitmapDataOfSource:BitmapData = bitmapOfSource.bitmapData; //gets the bitmapdata, which is required to "crop" the image
         var croppedBitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(widthValue, heightValue, true, 0x00000000); //creates a new bitmapdata object/variable which will have the proper height and width
          var cropRectangle:Rectangle = new Rectangle(xPosition, yPosition, widthValue, heightValue) //defines the rectangle to be cropped out, which will be used later
         var positionPoint = new Point(0, 0) //defines the point where the cropped rectangle will be placed, to be used later
          croppedBitmapData.copyPixels(bitmapDataOfSource, cropRectangle, positionPoint); //copies the specified pixels and sets them to the new bitmapdata object (if your parameters were BImage, 0, 0, 50, 50; this would crop a square side length 50, from position 0, 0 of BImage)
          var finalBitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap(croppedBitmapData) //converts the new bitmapdata object to a useable bitmap
          return finalBitmap
stage.addChild(getSprite(BImage, 0, 0, 320, 240));
Is my code, if anyone is looking for the same thing. Like CSS xD give it the background image, then the x, y, width, and height, and it'll just print out that portion of the image. Of course, if there's native support, I'd want to use that, which is why I'm double checking. Sorry if I'm being/making you repeat the same thing over and over :/ If you don't reply I'll just assume there isn't native support for sprite down states... already been very helpful. Thanks once again!