According to Adobe:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/langref/Date.html

Date() Constructor

• If you pass no arguments, the Date object is assigned the current date and time.

So I create an Date object:

var todaysDate ate = new Date();
trace(“todaysDate: ” + todaysDate.month + “/” + todaysDate.date + “/” + todaysDate.fullYear);

and the trace comes out as “todaysDate: 2/15/2008″

I’m scratching my head. I’m pretty sure it’s March, so I reboot and check the system date. Sure enough, it’s March. OK…So I start looking around:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-14658

“Not a bug. Dates in ActionScript are zero based. For more information, see: http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex3/langref/mx/controls/DateChooser.html#displayedMonth“

Now this might not be a *bug*, but it’s freakin‘ STOOPID. The days aren’t zero based. Why should the months be? I don’t where these guys grew up, but since when has January been month zero? Apparently on Planet Adobe January 1, 2008 is annotated 1/0/2008. Makes perfect sense to me.

I guess I’ve never run into this before because every time I’ve used the Date() it’s been relative…relatively WRONG.

Come on, guys…why should I have to write extra code to try to figger out the MONTH on my local computer?

Error #2014: Feature is not available at this time

Turns out this is an AIR bug:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-14282

The suggestion is that one should:

“evaluate if you are in the IDE before setting this property”

Any clues about how one might actually *do* this in ActionScript? I’ve searched to no avail.

It’s called like this:

<utilities:DragBitmap displayObject=”{theObject}“/>

The package itself:

package {

	import com.adobe.images.JPGEncoder;

	import flash.desktop.Clipboard;
	import flash.desktop.ClipboardFormats;
	import flash.desktop.NativeDragManager;
	import flash.desktop.NativeDragOptions;
	import flash.display.Bitmap;
	import flash.display.BitmapData;
	import flash.display.DisplayObject;
	import flash.display.InteractiveObject;
	import flash.display.Loader;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;
	import flash.filesystem.File;
	import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
	import flash.filesystem.FileStream;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
	import flash.utils.ByteArray;

	import mx.formatters.DateFormatter;

	public class DragBitmap
	{
		private var _displayObject:DisplayObject;
		private var dateFormatter:DateFormatter;

		public var dragIcon:BitmapData;

		public function DragBitmap()
		{
			var loader:Loader = new Loader();
            loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
				function ():void
				{
					dragIcon = Bitmap(loader.content).bitmapData;
				}
			);
			loader.load(new URLRequest("assets/icons/icon_image.png"));
			dateFormatter = new DateFormatter();
			dateFormatter.formatString = "YYYY-MM-DD-HH-NN-SS";
		} 

		public function set displayObject(displayObject:DisplayObject):void
		{
			_displayObject = displayObject;
			_displayObject.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, startDragging);
		}

		private function startDragging(event:MouseEvent):void
		{
			if (!event.buttonDown)
			{
				return;
			}

			var options:NativeDragOptions = new NativeDragOptions();
			options.allowCopy = true;
			options.allowLink = true;
			options.allowMove = false;

			var data:Clipboard = new Clipboard();
			data.setData(ClipboardFormats.BITMAP_FORMAT, getBitmapData(), false);
			data.setData(ClipboardFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT,[createTempJPG()]);

			NativeDragManager.doDrag(_displayObject as InteractiveObject, data, dragIcon, null);
		}

		private function getBitmapData():BitmapData
		{
			var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(_displayObject.width, _displayObject.height);
			bd.draw(_displayObject);
			return bd;
		}

		private function createTempJPG():File
		{
			var file:File = File.createTempDirectory().resolvePath("data-"+dateFormatter.format(new Date())+".jpg");
			var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
			fileStream.open(file, FileMode.WRITE);
			fileStream.writeBytes(encodeJPG());
			fileStream.close();
			return file;
		}

		private function encodeJPG():ByteArray
		{
			var jpgEncoder:JPGEncoder = new JPGEncoder();
			var bytes:ByteArray = jpgEncoder.encode(getBitmapData());
			return bytes;
		}

	}
}