To sort of answer my own question I've read that you can check
parentAllowsChild and childAllowsParent on the loader of the Image.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:33 AM, dorkie dork from dorktown <
dorkiedorkfromdorkt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an image I am pulling in from Facebook. It is running ok but now
> that we rotated the image it looks horribly pixelated with a lot of
> aliasing. I tried to set bitmap smoothing to true and it resulted in the
> famous error:
>
> SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content:
> http:// cannot access .jpg. A policy file is required, but the
> checkPolicyFile flag was not set when this media was loaded.
>
> I found online that Facebook has a policy file and I applied it
> successfully using:
>
> protected function initializeHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
> {
> // allows bitmap smoothing (which we need here)
> Security.loadPolicyFile("
> http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/crossdomain.xml";);
> var context:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext();
> context.checkPolicyFile = true;
> context.applicationDomain =
> ApplicationDomain.currentDomain;
> }
>
> This is called before the Image source is set. In fact it is in the
> initialize event of the Image container component.
>
> But I am wary to upload it to a site where I do not know if it will break
> because it is will be in a different security sandbox again.
>
> My question is, is there a way to tell if I can set bitmap smoothing to
> true on my images (bc if it is not allowed it will cause fatal errors and
> the whole application will explode). In other words, is it possible to tell
> if I'm in the correct security sandbox (security policy loaded and was
> successful) so I know smoothing is allowed. Does that make sense?
>
>
>
