# How do I copy a Sprite instance into a BitmapData instance?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-sprite-instance-into-a-bitmapdata-instance/243948>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 12, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-sprite-instance-into-a-bitmapdata-instance/243948 "2007-11-12T21:37:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stickeroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Stickeroo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stickeroo)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-copy-a-sprite-instance-into-a-bitmapdata-instance/243948/1 "2007-11-12T21:37:51Z")

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I apologize if this is covered elsewhere: I just don’t even know what terms to search on to find what I’m looking for…

I have a sprite that receives various user-drawn lines on it during runtime. I would like to be able to copy this Sprite into a BitmapData instance, then send the pixels from the BitmapData instance to a PHP script. I think I’ll be all right with the PHP end of things, but I just don’t know how to copy my Sprite into a BitmapData.

(If there were a way to just use BitmapData and use the moveTo, lineTo, mouseX, mouseY, etc, methods, then I’d do that, but I don’t even know if that’s possible…Obviously, I’m not as well-versed in AS3 as I’d like to be.)

Thanks in advance for any help!