Bitmap Smoothing and PixelSnapping

I do a lot of things with Bitmap‘s, especially reusing a single Bitmap object and updating its bitmapData. I was in the middle of some UI work and was baffled to why some of my Bitmap‘s were smooth and some were not after setting smoothing to true. I noticed that if you change the bitmapData property, the Bitmap will lose its smoothing and pixelSnapping values for no reason! Fortunately there’s an obvious fix:

var smoothing:Boolean = bitmap.smoothing;
var pixelSnapping:String = bitmap.pixelSnapping;

bitmap.bitmapData = bitmapData;
bitmap.smoothing = smoothing;
bitmap.pixelSnapping = pixelSnapping;

Hopefully someone updates the API to reflect this little gotcha.