I have an small app the generates pdfs. In order to generate the pdfs I need to make a screen shot of the stage. I want to integrate this generator into my air application. I would prefer to not show the stage of the generator project, but only output the pdfs file. Is it possible to make a screenshot of the stage without displaying it ?
View 1 RepliesWould it be possible to take a screenshot of the stage and its contents?
furthermore would it be possible to make the bitmap distort so it transitions downward something like this? [url]...
I would like to take a "screenshot" of the stage within flash and send it as an image by email. I have tried AMFPHP and the method described here - [URL]. This is saving a jpg of a movie on the server, but no email function. I know how to setup a very simple php email file but without attachment. So my problem is I have no idea how to "connect" all those parts together and make it so that when you click the button in flash it'll send the jpg by email directly.
View 2 RepliesIs there a way to take a "screenshot" of what is currently being displayed on the stage? Or even better, a part of the stage? Don't get me wrong- I know how to take a screenshot *myself*. What I want is to have an option within the *SWF* to generate a file (jpg, png or gif are all fine) of what the current stage looks like.
It sounds like a fairly easy idea / request but I have no clue how this would be done... It's for a shop (idea) where people can patch together their own design to be printed... but in order to do that, I would have to be able to generate an image of the completed design.? Am I missing something that's already integrated in Flash?
Is it possible to create a display object in AS and take a screenshot of it as ByteArray or whatever without adding it to stage?
View 1 RepliesI'm making an interactive animation for my project and I need to display chinese characters on stage. I've already installed the neccessary Window XP features to display chinese and it does display chinese anywhere I go. The strange thing is that the chinese characters are displayed as little white squares on stage but not in my library. In other words, I can read chinese in my library or any other places in my computer besides those that were set on stage.
View 2 RepliesI've got a Global variable here in my flash project, which is stated like this,_global.swfloaded = "home";This variable then changes throughout the project, depending on what buttons are pushed.One example of the change is when a button labelled Classic is clicked, taking the user to the Classic page, the variable is changed like this - swfloaded = "classic";I then have a dynamic text field with the instance name of 'output' on the stage, which I want to display the variable, the code I've used for that is - output.text = swfloaded;The problem is the 'output' field doesn't update at all, no matter what is clicked.
View 6 RepliesI have a menu movieclip that has 800 x 22 px i need to embed this flash menu in a jsp page and make that the displayed menus got outside of this size and overlay the contents of jsp. kinda of what does the menus of the adobe page
View 1 RepliesI was wondering if there was a way to display emptyMovieClips created in Actionscript while working in Flash? I don't mean on run time but rather in real time, as you're working on the Stage in Flash. Basically, I drew a couple of things in Actionscript since I work with banners in varying sizes for different countries. I figured that it would be easier to draw the redundant things in AS and have them adjust automatically to the sizes of the banners rather than to do it for every single one. However, the downside is that myself and the other designers would like to see what we're working with on the Stage.
View 1 RepliesI've got a Global variable here in my flash project, which is stated like this,
_global.swfloaded = "home";
This variable then changes throughout the project, depending on what buttons are pushed. One example of the change is when a button labelled Classic is clicked, taking the user to the Classic page, the variable is changed like this -
swfloaded = "classic";
I then have a dynamic text field with the instance name of 'output' on the stage, which I want to display the variable, the code I've used for that is -
output.text = swfloaded;
The problem is the 'output' field doesn't update at all, no matter what is clicked. How I can quickly and easily get the field to update when the global variable itself is changed.
I'm just trying to get a SimpleButton to appear on the stage in an AS3 project. For some reason, it won't appear.
Code:
//Main class:
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import view.controls.CustomButton;
import view.controls.Button;
[Code] .....
I have a DynamicText movie clip call mcShotsText. In my .as file I'm creating an instance via:
private var _mcShotsText:MovieClip;
_mcShotsText = new mcShotsText();
_mcShotsText.x = 300;
_mcShotsText.y = 300;
addChild(_mcShotsText);
If I make the symbol so that it starts with text, it displays that fine. I want to alter it in code throughout the course of the game. I was hoping this would work:
_mcShotsText.text = "I am a cample";
I have a datagrid on the stage with an instance name of dg. When I add a element to it, the data-grid adds it correctly (like it shows an empty row) just the data isn't shown. It's like the font is invisible or something. Do I need to like set a font on a datagrid component I have on the stage?
View 3 RepliesThe following script works perfectly, but I can't get the library item (which is a mc, class "helmet") to display. Do I need to import additional classes to display the mc?
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
import fl.controls.listClasses.CellRenderer;
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I have code for the user to enter their name in a text box. Once the submit button is clicked I want the name entered to be dispatched with an event as well as displayed on the stage. The reason I want the text field input name to be dispatched is because the text box to enter your name is on the main menu which is loaded and unloaded in order to play through various games.Below is the code to enter your name into the text box.
Code:
var NameTextField:TextField = new TextField();var MyFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
MyFormat.size = 20;
NameTextField.defaultTextFormat = MyFormat;[code].....
how I export the thing (as an image, or a movie, and in any format) I can't see the text. This is especially frustrating because text forms the entire basis of my animation.Tried converting text to movie clips, no difference. The weird part is, I was able to test the thing early on with no problem-- text displayed and everything. I should add: I have used MULTIPLE fonts... and I think this was about when things started not working.I'm working on a deadline and if you know how to fix this, it would make a big difference to my life.
View 1 RepliesTaking this thread to the next level and now making a Main.as class to display different "screens" of my game.For right now I only have 1 screen called ControlPanel, but this will eventually have multiple levels (each level will be a separate screen) and a level selection screen, etc. added. So at this point I'm losing control over how to give things access to the stage (in other words... it's getting really thick with multiple levels and this noob's brain is being overloaded lol).
To start off, I took all of my graphics that were on the stage by default (buttons, lights, meters, score text, etc.) and created a new symbol (MovieClip) that I called ControlPanel and checked off "Export for ActionScript" with a class name of ControlPanel. So now my games fla stage is black and I made it's document class Main.as. which looks like this:
public class Main extends MovieClip {
public var controlPanel:ControlPanel;
public function Main() {[code].........
Running this worked perfectly in that my Control Panel screen popped right onto the screen. Of course all the buttons didn't work yet but that is the next step. So I modified my old Game.as to now be called ControlPanel and read like so:
public class ControlPanel extends MovieClip {
private var docRef:Main;
private var _player:Player;[code]...........
this is a hodgepodge of ideas torn between the docRef and the View idea. I need to have access to the stage for my mouse and keyboard listeners, but then I also need access to the buttons in the ControlPanelView symbol. Do I need to pass both the view and the docRef here? How to I maintain access to the stage and the ControlPanelView graphic?
I have a Google map in my flex app that I need to occasionally export to an image file. Every time I try to call the, Map.getPrintableBitmap() or ImageSnapshot.captureBitmapData() functions I get the Error #2123: Security sandbox violation.I've tried adding various security allowances like:[code]I'm asking for a bitmap representation of a component that's already been drawn on the client's screen. Clearly all the information necessary to provide that bitmap is already present in local memory.[code]
View 3 RepliesI want to save a screenshot of my flash application at the highest resolution as possible ( 300 dpi or more).[code]...
Do you know how to improve the resolution ? Is there any encoder that can make higher resolution pictures ?
Is it possible to take a screenshot in as3 of a movie clip and send it to another file via local connection? I have been trying for a couple of days so far and still I am pretty much lost. I followed the byte array.org live jpeg encoder and tried some of the code he uses but all I am getting is the bottom right corner of the mc when it is sent to the other side. What is the easiest way to do this? I'm not even that interested in actually encoding it, just sending the image to the receiver.
View 0 RepliesI'm building my first website in Flash, and it's a porfolio website. I'm trying to set up my portfolio page to show screenshots of my graphic design projects, and when a user clicks on them, it enlarges the photo.
I am looking for it to be done like this website below when you click on their photo samples, it enlarges it, where you can also go to the next photo.
I've exhausted all of my possible avenues for research and I am curious if any one has stumbled upon a piece of code or program that will convert a swf to an image format. It needs to happen at the click of a button within the swf itself. I've seen code for capturing the drawing API through PHP, but nothing for capturing straight pixel for pixel, not that a particular method is important. But at the very least all elements on screen need to be captured, ie. library items, input boxes etc. The method isnt important, I just need to get screengrabs of the swf at any time.
View 3 Replieshaving trouble with XML() / XMLList. Specifically displaying the currentIndex on stage. I'm able to display the default index[0] but can not cycle through the others. I'm under the assumption the error lies at the within the code.
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I'm developing some photo viewer app for some web site in flex 3. One of the demands made by my customers is preventing of their unique visual content from copying at least by standard Windows tools ("Print Screen" button). Are there any tricky techniques capable of doing this?
The first thing occurred to me is handling "Print Screen" button of keyboard doesn't seem to be as effective as my client needs.
The searches that I did on this topic aren't providing me with any answers...that I can understand anyway. =*) Here's the situation.In the past, I did computer-based-training using "a different authoring tool." One thing I discovered I could do with that tool--which really opened up new possibilities for me--was to use that scripting language to create a snapshot of the current window and save that image as an object/class. Then I could access that object, resize it, save it to disk, and load it in later. The result--for my training at least--was a visual bookmark of their location in the training should they have to save and come back later.I would now like to do this with Flash.specificially CS4 and AS3.If anyone can point me in the right location to get started,For clarity, the steps are:
1: Take a snapshot of the current Flash window / Stage. I'm not concerned if the snapshot remains "in Flash" or goes to the Clipboard as long as I can get to it in the next step.
2: Access that snapshot from where-ever it's stored.
3: Process the snapshot and reduce it to a thumbnail, etc.
4: Save it to a file that I can bring back into the .swf at a later point. I'm not real concerned about the format of the file as long as I can bring it back in later. How do I save it? I would love to be able to save it to the user's machine but last I checked
Flash won't do that sort of thing. Can I save it as a file on the server that the .swf is running from using perhaps a PHP call /script / page?
5: And, of course, recall the image to be used at a later point. I already have a pretty good handle on this from past experiments.
can i save a screenshot from a loaded swf using the SWFLoader class ?
View 1 RepliesCan pixels be read covertly from a browser window containing flash + HTML?(Is it possible for flash or the browser to detect a screenshot being taken?)What about for other methods of capturing pixels? (Like the one described here: How to read the screen pixels?)
EDIT: (background info)
A C++ application is going to read pixels from a browser window (which happens to contain Flash and some regular HTML and JavaScript). The browser window would like, if possible, to detect the fact that it's pixels have been read. The method of getting the pixels could be any (short of taking a photo of the screen itself).
On my website people enter, watch a live stream from a remote server (not my server) and when they click on a button it report it to me and what I want to add is the ability for me to take a screenshot of this stream at the very moment when they click that button and save it on the server. They question is how to implement so? Now I just have that stream in an Iframe that shows it as a .swf object Possible solutions I thought of but don't know whether will work are:
Embedding this Iframe inside a flash object that I will create. That means that on the website the users will see a flash object I created that all it does is to show the stream from an url I give it and when the user clicks on a button inside the html it will send the flash the command to save the screenshot now and then save it on my server (don't know how to implement it, so the second question is, if you think it will work, how to do so?).Second solution is to have an open browser on my server that when the user clicks the button, I send an ajax request to the server that will then order the browser to take a screenshot and save it locally on the server. (again, if you think this solution will work, tell me how to implement so).
I want to take a screenshot from my website of another website or preferable 1 part of it (an object tag).I want it to work this way: I click on a button that will send a request to screenshot the page at this moment. Several ideas are insert the page inside a flash object and screenshot it. Or opening a browser on the server and when I click the button send a request using AJAX to tell the server to screenshot with this browser.How should I do this because I kind of failing right now with the flash Idea. The page I am trying to screenshot is a live camera that uses a .wvx object. But I can't even do that with a .swf object
View 1 RepliesHow can I capture a screenshot of a movieClip, and ignore the interface overlying it ?
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