Hack for Flash's security policy for cross-domain editable images

CrossDomainImageDownloader.as

package lib
{
  /**
  * Note: This is not optimized just sample code
  */
  public Class CrossDomainImageDownloader
  {
    public static function getImage(url:String, callback:Function):void 
    {
      //download cross-domain image
      var loader:Loader = new Loader();
      loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function (event:Event):void 
      {
        //pipe the byteArray from the image to a new loader
        var loader:Loader = new Loader();
        loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(e:Event):void
        {
          //The bytes that have been transformed into an image with no domain restrictions
          var pic = LoaderInfo(e.target).content;
          if(pic is flash.display.MovieClip) {
            var b:BitmapData = new BitmapData(pic.width, pic.height, true, 0x000000);
            b.draw(pic);
            pic = new Bitmap(b);
          }
          //send the image to the callback function
          callback(pic);
        });

        loader.loadBytes(event.target.bytes);
      });

      loader.load(new URLRequest(url));
    }
  }
}