Outputting Jpg Snapshot With Flash

[PigMaker]

Hello,
I am attempting to output a simple .jpg file from whatever is currently happening in the Flash .swf

It doesn't have to be anything crazy, it is to take a snapshot of a still image after data is processed.
Everything that I have seen so far outputs to a .php file and the user cannot access the .jpg file.

Can anybody help?

[Josemaria]

Why don't you catch a Print Screen shot? And then edit it in paint. Am I completely not getting the point?

[PigMaker]

At 1/21/09 10:02 PM, Josemaria wrote: Why don't you catch a Print Screen shot? And then edit it in paint. Am I completely not getting the point?

It is supposed to be on a web server, so that the user can share that data with the other users.
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[Josemaria]

Then what I said makes sense I think. Watch the movie.. when it gets to the point you want a make a jpg image out of stop it. Press Print Screen and then paste it in paint or GIMP or Photoshop. Crop it to the size you want it and voila.. I kinda think I'm making sense... Might not be.

TLZ

[korded]

At 1/21/09 09:55 PM, PigMaker wrote: Hello,
I am attempting to output a simple .jpg file from whatever is currently happening in the Flash .swf

Check this.. http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashP HP/print_screen/

[PigMaker]

At 1/21/09 10:13 PM, Josemaria wrote: Then what I said makes sense I think. Watch the movie.. when it gets to the point you want a make a jpg image out of stop it. Press Print Screen and then paste it in paint or GIMP or Photoshop. Crop it to the size you want it and voila.. I kinda think I'm making sense... Might not be.

TLZ

No, that doesn't even make sense, I am not going to be the one even doing it, the users of the forums are going to.

It is to be a .swf posted on the web and they enter data, it is manipulated, then I want a snapshot taken of the output on my server so that the rest of the users can see it, link to it, etc.

[PigMaker]

At 1/21/09 10:17 PM, korded wrote:

At 1/21/09 09:55 PM, PigMaker wrote: Hello,
I am attempting to output a simple .jpg file from whatever is currently happening in the Flash .swf

Check this.. http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashP HP/print_screen/

I have read that already, it outputs the pixels to a .php file, where there is no .jpg involved, try to download the image after you created one.

[KaynSlamdyke]

At 1/21/09 10:32 PM, PigMaker wrote: I have read that already, it outputs the pixels to a .php file, where there is no .jpg involved, try to download the image after you created one.

Sephi's code works perfectly fine - it uses PHP to output a JPG file. However, that JPG file is not a permenant presence on the server. What you do with the output of a php script is a seperate issue.

You'll now need to shift your enquiry over to the programming forum with what to DO with all this data you have created, and how to save a copy of whatever you've created to your forum's images folders.