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I wanted to post the demo of the example I posted the other day as a video. It is using the new Query Graphics API we are introducing in Flash Player 11.6/AIR 3.6. Make sure you have Flash Player 11.6 and check the demo below. Just click anywhere to sample the graphical objects from the MovieClip then reconstruct it at runtime:

Here is the very simple code below, note that the API is now called readGraphicsData. You can download the full source code here:

package
{
	import flash.display.IGraphicsData;
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	
	[SWF(width="900", height="400", frameRate="30", backgroundColor="#FFFFFF")]
	public class TestGrabby extends Sprite
	{
		private var b:BigBilbo = new BigBilbo();
		private var v:Vector.<IGraphicsData>;
		private var result:Vector.<IGraphicsData>;
		private var copy:Sprite = new Sprite();
		private var inc:int;
		private var count:int;
		
		public function TestGrabby()
		{
			b.scaleX = b.scaleY = .7;
			copy.scaleX = copy.scaleY = .7;
			b.x = 240;
			b.y = 200;
			addChild( b );
			
			copy.x = 650;
			copy.y = 200;
			addChild ( copy );
			
			stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
		}
		
		private function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void
		{	
			// reset
			inc = 0;
			stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onFrame);	
			copy.graphics.clear();
			
			// sample
			v = b.graphics.readGraphicsData(true);
			count = v.length;
			result = new Vector.<IGraphicsData>(count, true);
			stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onFrame);	
		}
		
		private function onFrame (e:Event):void
		{
			if ( inc < count )
			{
				result[inc++] = v.shift();
				copy.graphics.drawGraphicsData(result);
			} else stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onFrame);
		}
	}
}

I hope you guys will like it!