# Convert bitmapdata to displayObject

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/convert-bitmapdata-to-displayobject/300027>\
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**Created:** [November 14, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/convert-bitmapdata-to-displayobject/300027 "2009-11-14T17:31:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/convert-bitmapdata-to-displayobject/300027/1 "2009-11-14T17:31:55Z")

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Can a flash.display bitmapData object be converted to flash.displayObject?  
i bump with an error when i tried to convert a bitmapData to DisplayObject

=\> setChildIndex(DisplayObject(bitmapData),0);

“TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::BitmapData@35f4779 to flash.display.DisplayObject.”