Flex: Render an unrealized UIComponent to BitmapData?

Question

What is the best way to render to a UIComponent which hasn\'t been added to the stage? (I\'m using UIComponents as renderers for objects, and want to render ne

Answer 1

You can call the lifecycle function manually before using the BitmapData.draw(). Do the following.

1. createChildren().
2. commitProperties().
3. updateDisplayList().
4. bmd.draw().

The first 2 steps are not 100% necessary, you can put all codes into updateDisplayList(). Because you invoke the function manually, you don't have to worry this is invoked by Flex framework many times.