You should use the Flash/Flex Component Kit to wrap your Flash content. Flash content won't work well in Flex without being wrapped in some fashion. The minimum thing you could do is stick in an mx:UIComponent of the appropriate size in the application and addChild the sprite to it.
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of michaeljonknight Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:33 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] difference between stage and application? Hello, I am somewhat new to flex. We are working on a project that uses an exported swc from Flash and running into some problems getting everything we want to show up layered correctly. I want to add a menu bar (mx.controls.MenuBar) on top of some content from the flash swc (flash.display.Sprite). I can only get the menu bar to show up if I call application.addChild and the sprite to show up if I call application.stage.addChild. But the menu bar popups are behind the sprite. I don't really understand the difference between the application and the stage either. Can anyone help? And is there an established way to work with mx.controls and flash.display.sprite data? thanks in advance, madmik3
