NEED TO KNOW HOW CONVERT GIF FILE TO SYMBOL FROM DOCUMENT CLASS

Question

                                            ROBERT LEAHONG
                                  COMPUTER PROGRAMMER / ASP Web Devloper
Hello,
        I need to convert a GIF file (PICTURE) to a symbol (Button) From within The Document Class using ActionScript 3.0 .
Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

So you imported a .gif into the library and need to get to it from the document class? If that's the case you need to  right-click the image in the library, select properties, select the ActionScript tab and then set it to export for ActionScript. Give it a class name - I'll use myGif for example. You'll see it will have a base class of BitmapData...
Then in your document class you can just instantiate it like:
var myImageData:BitmapData = new myGif();
You can turn it into a useable image that you can place on stage by putting it into a Bitmap object:
var myImage:Bitmap = new Bitmap(myImageData);
If you want to make a button out of it, ie make it clickable - stick it into a Sprite:
var mySprite:Sprite = new Sprite():
mySprite.addChild(myImage);
addChild(mySprite);
mySprite.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clicked);
function clicked(e:MouseEvent):void
     trace("clicked");
HTH