Invalid BitmapData Error #2015

[TonyT2782]

I'm getting an Invalid BitmapData Error #2015 at 

flash.display::BitmapData$iinit() that points to the line 

of code below where a BitmapData object is created. 

I am using this function to create only a few hundred

Item objects, each of which is only 166 px by 96 px in 

size so I don't believe that the problem has to do with

running out of memory. I also used system.totalMemory 

to trace memory consumption but it showed that only

a few tens of megabytes were used when the error occurred. 

I have tried setting the BitmapData and Bitmap

objects to null because that was a solution I found on another 

site. That didn't work. I tried dispose(). The error

occurs intermittently, sometimes after running my app a few 

times and sometimes when I first load it. I am not

refreshing my browser over and over in order to run the app. 

I cannot figure out the exact sequence of events that

leads to this error. In earlier versions of my app, I was able to 

successfully use the exact same function (minus

the lines where the BitmapData and Bitmap objects are set to 

null). I am not an expert at Actionscript, so perhaps

I'm doing something wrong. Please help me out. Thanks.



          public function cloneItem(item:Item):Item {
               var itemClone:Item = new Item(item.ID, item.name, item.bpCost, item.bcCost, item.quantity);
               var tempBitmap:Bitmap;
               var tempBitmapData:BitmapData;
               var tempSprite:Sprite;

               if (item.card != null) {
                    itemClone.card = new mcCard();

                    itemClone.card.txbCardName.text = item.card.txbCardName.text;
                    itemClone.card.setCost(item.card.cost);
                    itemClone.card.txbSet.text = item.card.txbSet.text;
                    itemClone.card.txbRarity.text = item.card.txbRarity.text;
                    itemClone.card.txbLevel.text = item.card.txbLevel.text;
                    itemClone.card.txbType.text = item.card.txbType.text;
     
                    if (itemClone.card.txbType.text.indexOf('Unit') == -1 && itemClone.card.txbType.text.indexOf('Hero') == -1 && itemClone.card.txbType.text.indexOf('Leader') == -1) {
                         itemClone.card.hideUnitAttributes();
                    } else {
                         itemClone.card.txbAttack.text = item.card.txbAttack.text;
                         itemClone.card.txbHP.text = item.card.txbHP.text;
                         
                         if (itemClone.card.txbType.text.indexOf('Leader') == -1) {
                              itemClone.card.lblMP.visible = false;
                              itemClone.card.txbMP.visible = false;
                         } else {
                              itemClone.card.lblAttack.visible = false;
                              itemClone.card.txbAttack.visible = false;
                              itemClone.card.mcSword.visible = false;
                              
                              itemClone.card.lblHP.x = itemClone.card.lblAttack.x;
                              itemClone.card.txbHP.x = itemClone.card.txbAttack.x;
                              itemClone.card.mcHeart.x = 0;

                              itemClone.card.txbMP.text = item.card.txbMP.text;
                         }
                    }
                    
                    itemClone.card.txbRules.text = item.card.txbRules.text;
                    
                    tempBitmapData = new BitmapData(166, 96);
                    tempBitmapData.draw(item.card.mcImage);
                    tempBitmap = new Bitmap(tempBitmapData);
                    //tempBitmap.cacheAsBitmap = false;
                    //tempBitmap.smoothing = true;
                    tempSprite = new Sprite();
                    tempSprite.addChild(tempBitmap);
                    itemClone.card.mcImage.addChild(tempSprite);

                    //tempBitmapData.dispose();
                    
                    tempBitmapData = null;
                    tempBitmap = null;
                    
                    itemClone.card.buttonMode = true;
                    itemClone.card.mouseChildren = false;
                    itemClone.card.tabEnabled = false;
               }

               return itemClone;
          }

[TonyT2782]

Can someone help me out?

[riquigley]

I'm sorry, but your code is largely unreadable.  It's too busy and not broken up into invidual functions, nor commented very well.  I'm sure it makes perfect sense to you, but for me, not being familiar at all with what properties or functions "item" has, it's hard to say.

But just as a shot in the dark, I'd say that item.card.mcImage is the culprit.  I assume this is a MovieClip.  Can you add this to the stage and see if there's any data there?  Or trace it to make sure it returns non-null?

addChild(item.card.mcImage);

trace (item.card.mcImage);

Also, if you comment out that whole part with the Bitmap, does the rest of the code work?

[TonyT2782]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've already tried tracing item.card.mcImage to see if it's null but that's not what's causing the error. I need the Bitmap part in order for it to work. Is there anything else that I should look into?

[riquigley]

More shots in the dark...

Check the following:

1) The height and width may be invalid.  Change it to:

new BitmapData (item.card.mcImage.width, item.card.mcImage.height);

2) If that doesn't work, try it with just a single pixel

new BitmapData(1,1);

3) Check to see if the movieClip has been resized or transformed.

4) Make sure the MovieClip is at 0,0 registration

5) Try setting the alpha value to false and see if it captures a black rectangle

new BitmapData(166,96,false);

If it doesn't throw an error, and returns a black rectangle, it means there were no pixels for it to capture.

6) Substitute the item.card.mcImage with a different MovieClip.

7) And lastly, try to comment out code that comes before to see if it's something else that's causing the error.  Sometimes the error is being thrown for entirely different reasons than it says, but AS gets confused.

[Guest]

You test for the card being null - so it must be able to be null, right.

if (item.card != null) {

But you still try and and take an image from it... what if it is null? Seems your imaging code should be inside the if so you guarantee it's not null. The draw isn't going to work if item.card is null.

[TonyT2782]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried just about all of them but still can't get it working. I'm going to try something else entirely.

[arindam_mojumder]

Is there any possibilities to create a Bitmapdata of more than 2880 pixel width and height? I know in flash there is a limitation of Bitmapdata dimension and that is 2880 pixel. But what is the solution to overcome this problem?

Actually I am creating a photo album application. There user can choose the album dimension and as it is related to the Print section so I have to keep the resolution in 300 DPI. there fore 3.5 inch means 3.5*300 pixel similarly 11 / 8 inchs is generating more that the 2880 pixels. and whenever I am trying to convert the album into jpeg format by bitmap data handler, I am getting error.

What is the solution????

[Andrei1-bKoviI]

Here are limitations as describled in documentation:

"In  AIR 1.5 and Flash Player 10, the maximum size for a BitmapData object is 8,191 pixels in width or height,  and the total number of pixels cannot exceed 16,777,215 pixels. (So, if a BitmapData object is 8,191 pixels  wide, it can only be 2,048 pixels high.) In Flash Player 9 and earlier and AIR 1.1 and earlier, the limitation is 2,880 pixels in height and 2,880 in width."

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/BitmapData.html?filter_coldfusion=9&filter_flex=3&filter_flashplayer=10&filter_air=1.5

There is no way to overcome this limitations.

[arindam_mojumder]

That means if I use Flash player 10 then I can increase the dimension the of Bitmap? What is the limitation of the dimension on the latest version, 8191 pixels ?????

Getting confuse on this section :

"In  AIR 1.5 and Flash Player 10, the maximum size for a BitmapData object is 8,191 pixels in width or height,  and the total number of pixels cannot exceed 16,777,215 pixels. (So, if a BitmapData object is 8,191 pixels  wide, it can only be 2,048 pixels high.)

[Andrei1-bKoviI]

Max width OR height can be up to 8191. It CANNOT be 8191 by 8191 because these dimensions will encompass 67,092,481 pixels which is more than 16,777,215 the max of all-in-all pixels BitmapData can take. So, if it is 8191 wide - it can be NOT MORE than 2048. The same goes for height vs width.

[kglad]

there's no reason your printer would be related to bitmapdata size.   what are you trying to do?

[arindam_mojumder]

Actually I am making an online photo album maker, where user can upload their personal photo and can decorate it through different ornaments, like Photo frame, ring, floral design, some background and so on . User also can choose the dimension of the album, whether  it will be Landscape or portrait. The maximum width and height can be A4 size. As it is print related so after all the decoration user can save this file or send this file to the admin for print purpose.

If you see the www.mixbook.com you can easily understand what kind of application I am going to create.