title: Bitmap image in Flex
body: <p>I was trying the following</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" &gt;     
      &lt;mx:Canvas id="myBox"&gt;
          &lt;mx:Box id="myBox2"&gt;
              &lt;mx:Image source="img/hippo.bmp"&gt;&lt;/mx:Image&gt;
              &lt;mx:Image source="img/close_button.gif"&gt;&lt;/mx:Image&gt;
          &lt;/mx:Box&gt;
      &lt;/mx:Canvas&gt;    
  &lt;/mx:Application&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I got the image of close_button.gif while the other hippo.bmp is not displayed. What is the problem with bitmap file in Flex?</p>