Converting Starling texture to Bitmap

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/** Note: Only tested with Starling 1.5.1 */

import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import starling.core.RenderSupport;
import starling.core.Starling;
import starling.display.*;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;

// 'sprite' is a Starling sprite you want to grab the bitmap from
var bitmapdata:BitmapData = copyAsBitmapData(sprite);
var bitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bitmapdata);
bitmap.smoothing = false;


/** http://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/taking-a-screenshot-and-save-it-to-the-camera-roll
 */
function copyAsBitmapData(displayObject:starling.display.DisplayObject, transparentBackground:Boolean = true, backgroundColor:uint = 0xcccccc):BitmapData
{
	if (displayObject == null || isNaN(displayObject.width)|| isNaN(displayObject.height))
		return null;
	var resultRect:Rectangle = new Rectangle();
	displayObject.getBounds(displayObject, resultRect);
	
	var result:BitmapData = new BitmapData(displayObject.width, displayObject.height, transparentBackground, backgroundColor);
	var context:Context3D = Starling.context;
	var support:RenderSupport = new RenderSupport();
	RenderSupport.clear();
	support.setOrthographicProjection(0,0, Starling.current.stage.stageWidth, Starling.current.stage.stageHeight);
	support.applyBlendMode(true);
	support.translateMatrix( -resultRect.x, -resultRect.y);
	support.pushMatrix();
	//support.pushBlendMode();
	support.blendMode = displayObject.blendMode;
	displayObject.render(support, 1.0);
	support.popMatrix();
	//support.popBlendMode();
	support.finishQuadBatch();
	context.drawToBitmapData(result);
	return result;
}