How to attach a moiveClip into as3isolib grid? - actionscript-3

Question

I am a beginner with using AS3 and as3isolib. I am trying to add some MC from the fla library into an isoGrid object. I tried to use addChild() method of the IsoGrid class but it gave me an error saying: 1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type [MovieClip Name] to an unrelated type as3isolib.data:INode. Which I think wants me to use the node class.
Any idea how to do such a thing?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

as3isolib use it's own display list like rendering tree, add all nodes in this tree must implements as3isolib.data:INode. There are two possibility to add flash native display objects to the IsoScene:
Take a look on this small tutorial:
//create IsoView, IsoScene and IsoGrid - default from as3isolib
var view:IsoView = new IsoView();
view.setSize(stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
addChild(view);
var scene:IsoScene = new IsoScene();
view.addScene(scene);
var grid:IsoGrid = new IsoGrid({cellSize:32});
grid.setGridSize(800, 600);
grid.stroke = new Stroke(0, 0x576F33);
grid.render();
//create iso box, just for demo
var obj:IsoBox = new IsoBox();
obj.setSize(32, 32, 64);
obj.moveTo(5*32, 5*32, 1);
//first possiblity to add flash.display.Shape to the iso scene - using IsoSprite.sprites
var isoSprite:IsoSprite = new IsoSprite();
isoSprite.moveTo(5*32, 7*32, 1);
var shape1:Shape = new Shape();
shape1.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 1);
shape1.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 32, 32);
isoSprite.sprites = [shape1];
//second possiblity to add flash.display.Shape to the iso scene - using IsoDisplayObject.container
var isoObj:IsoDisplayObject = new IsoDisplayObject();
isoObj.moveTo(7*32, 7*32, 1);
var shape2:Shape = new Shape();
shape2.graphics.beginFill(0x0000FF, 1);
shape2.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 32, 32);
isoObj.container.addChild(shape2);
//add all objects to the scene and render all
scene.addChild(grid);
scene.addChild(obj);
scene.addChild(isoSprite);
scene.addChild(isoObj);
scene.render();