Drag and Drop interface

[rocketrud]

I would like to create an interface where the user can drag things around and then email the final product.

Something like this would be awesome.
http://family.ca/doit/sendit/cardswap/snowmanbuilder/



I have seen lots of drawing apps and dragging aps that save state but none that send the final product by email. Any help would be much appreciated.

[5TonsOfFlax]

What do you already know how to do, and what are you asking for advice on?

Let me shoot down your dreams right now: Flash cannot email. Email is a server side thing, so you'll have to do it with some server-side dynamic web thingamajig. I do not mean to say it's difficult to do that. I do mean to say that if you didn't already know that, you've got a long long road ahead of you.

[rocketrud]

I know how to drag movie clips around the stage. I have played with bitmap exporting. I purchased this from FlashDen. http://www.flashden.net/item/flash2jpg/3037

Would it be hard to give me an fla that has a dragable movie clip with a button when clicked that tells a php document to email the final state. Or however you would do it.

[5TonsOfFlax]

You wasted your money, my friend. It's trivially easy to capture the visual state of the movie (or any DisplayObject in it) into a bitmap, then encode that bitmap as jpg.

If all you want is a jpg sent out in email, that would probably be pretty easy. You'd capture the data as above, encode with a JPGEncoder, encode that with Base64 (both of which should be in the as3corelib ( http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ ), pass the Base64 string to a php script on the server which will attach the jpg to an email, and send that off to your vict^H^H^H^Hrecipient. The nifty thing is apparently php wants things in base64 anyway in order to attach them.
http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7019

I've not tried this, but I just might do it tonight. I'm trying to teach myself php.

[rocketrud]

I would like to export a 600x600 image from flash as a JPG. But if it is to be done at 100 percent it seems to hang forever. If I put it to export at 25 percent it works just fine.

If you play around with this and get a chance to send me an fla and a php file that would be cool. I doubt I'll figure it out without those two things. I have read up on this stuff quite a bit