AS3 - clone a Sprite?

programming flash
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Does anyone know if there’s a way to clone a sprite? It’s easy enough with a bitmap since BitmapData can be cloned. Any ideas?

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you could trace the sprit as a bitmap and clone it that way, or wrap the sprit in a movie clip and clone the movie clip but for a direct clone im not sure at the moment, does it have to stay a sprit object?

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Yes it should stay a Sprite/ be identical.

Cloning a MovieClip is just as impossible as cloning a Sprite, so the wrapper idea wouldn’t be a solution.

While drawing the Sprite onto some BitmapData would clone it visually there’s potentially a lot more to a Sprite than that, e.g. display children.

I don’t think this is possible - just found what I thought was the solution (http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/?archive=2006_02_01_archive.xml) but it won’t work for DisplayObject.

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What about this;

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[QUOTE=dail;2332729]What about this;

FYI, that Flash 9 bug has been fixed in … well, some version of Flash 9 so a version check really should be added to only apply that in versions it’s been broken.

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Thanks for the link!