Is it possible to save creations in a exe?

[kallok]

I made a small paint program in flash and I am wondering if there is a way that people could be able to save what they paint....I'm not really sure if you can.

[Justmade]

Flash do not have way to send out stream of data so it is quite not possible to have a good way to save the graphic.

There are some not so good workaround though.
You can in you drawing function record each move the user had made and save it to shareobject or file. Then reapply those move when user load that file.

Another possible way is save it as bitmap. The user can use the printscreen function to save the screen capture but it is troublesome. if you want, I can try (remember it is a try) to add a fucntion to my next version of LPFlashEx to capture your window and save the screenshot to a jpg directly in a flash button click.

[kallok]

Thats exactly what I was thining..the whole print screen function.I might end up doing that I think.Maby I will just work with Visual Basic for programs like that from now on.... Thanks for helping!

[Northcode]

Check out http://www21.brinkster.com/lonwolve/db to see how to create bitmaps on the fly in Flash without any third party tools. All you need is a web server and some ActionScript.

On the clinet side, SWF Studio http://www.northcode.com already supports saving and printing bitmap images of the client area of your projector and I believe Jugglor (www.***********.com) can do this as well.

[kallok]

Thanks, Northcode.I am going to check out your site.

[Flash 'N Pack]

I think you can do what you want in flash without the need of any third party tools..

check out these links:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Utili...6835/index.php

and

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...7252/index.php

also check out this site which will give you more power to your projectors..

http://www.flashnpack.com

[Northcode]

Cool! The drawing utility dumps the pen movements required to recreate the image. The bitmap creator things needs a server because it creates a real binary BMP file that you can download.

Neither one is a REALLY useful solution in a real world situation. Bitmaps of any reasonable size contain too much information to process this way (send up and then download again).

However, there are some cool things you could do with the technique that bitmap editor uses. You could EASILY make an online icon editor.