From cecdbfa320b82b44d918f5588ab9265cbba01091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Greenwell <ray@threerings.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:14:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added toBitmapData.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/nenya/trunk@720 ed5b42cb-e716-0410-a449-f6a68f950b19
---
 src/as/com/threerings/flash/ImageUtil.as | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/as/com/threerings/flash/ImageUtil.as b/src/as/com/threerings/flash/ImageUtil.as
index a990d873..cbfe695a 100644
--- a/src/as/com/threerings/flash/ImageUtil.as
+++ b/src/as/com/threerings/flash/ImageUtil.as
@@ -67,6 +67,24 @@ public class ImageUtil
         */
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Takes a BitmapData, Bitmap, or Class that will turn into either, and returns
+     * a reference to the BitmapData, or returns null.
+     */
+    public static function toBitmapData (spec :*) :BitmapData
+    {
+        if (spec is Class) {
+            spec = new (Class(spec))();
+        }
+        if (spec is BitmapData) {
+            return BitmapData(spec);
+        } else if (spec is Bitmap) {
+            return Bitmap(spec).bitmapData;
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Create a minimally-sized "error" BitmapData.
      */