Is there a way to export a DisplayObject's vector data?

Question

Flex gives the ability to export a display object as a bitmap as follows:

var bitmapDataBuffer:BitmapData = new BitmapData ( displayObject.width, displayObject.height, false);            
bitmapDataBuffer.draw ( displayObject, displayObject.transform.matrix);

Is there a method to export a display object as a vector graphic instead of bitmap data?

Answer 1

I'm going to guess from this bug that it's not currently possible:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-605

Answer 2

The copyFrom() function on the Graphics object might be what you need. It was added in Flash Player 10.

Answer 3

In short, no, but you could try to convert to a bitmap and then vectorize the bitmap (something like the marching squares algorithm)

If you are drawing it in AS, you could keep track of your drawing, possibly by extending Graphics & Sprite or Shape to use the new class.