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    Handwriting capture in pocket IE

    Does anyone know whether it would be possible to capture a signature with flash in pocketIE?
    By signature capture, it doesn't need to extend beyond capturing an image, there are no fancy authentication bits etc. This is what I want to achieve:

    User writes on portion of screen embedded in webpage.
    User clicks a 'submit' button.
    Image of signature is saved and sent to DB.(I use php)

    So, A:how do I create a 'drawable area' in flash?
    and B: Can it save as a printscreen?

    Thanks
    I wait in hope for your responses

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    U may not be able to do the printscreen kinda stuf but there is a workaround for this

    I am not gonna give u the solution for drawing area but the logic for capturing sign

    Usually what we do while drawing is on the press of a mouse button we stores its starting points, go on drawing lines on each mouse move and update the line starting position.

    Well what u can do is before updating this starting pos u should store line start and end pos in array. and when user submits the resul we collect all the elements from that array and make a string out of it. Then u can pass this particular string to Ur php page to store.

    And while retriving this sign u get the same data on which u draw the signature.

    Actually on PPC this solution works faster than uploading and downloading images.

    But to use this solution ur PPC shoul support atleast Flash 6 (For drawing APIs)

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