Wow this is a crazy class! Just bought the Actionscript dictionary for Flash 8 and thought I’d give the BitmapData class a whirl. I’m actually starting to understand it now. The wacky example below uses copyPixel() to break apart a PNG and move it around all squishy.

[as]import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;

var r:Number = 24;
var c:Number = 24;

var photoB:BitmapData = new BitmapData(photo._width,photo._height);
photoB.draw(photo);

for(i=0;i for(j=0;j var t:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip(“c”+this.getNextHighestDepth(),this.getNextHighestDepth());
t._y = i*5 + 50;
t._x = j*5 + 50;
var tb:BitmapData = new BitmapData(5,5);
t.attachBitmap(tb,1);
tb.copyPixels(photoB,new Rectangle(j*5,i*5,5,5),new Point(0,0));
t.j = j+1;
t.i = i+1;
t.onEnterFrame = moveIt;
}
}

function moveIt() {
this._x += (((_root._xmouse + (this.j*5))-60) – this._x) / (this.j*this.i)*this.j;
this._y += (((_root._ymouse + (this.i*5))-60) – this._y) / (this.i*this.j)*this.i;
}
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