Print screen?

[Jafa]

Hi all, I'm doing a swf that I need the user to be able to print what is on the screen. I could get them to do a Prt Sc and cut n paste into a word doc but thats pretty clunky.Any ideas please? Thanks Jafa

[Stephen]

I don't think this is possible in Flash without using php or something.

[RickyRombo]

You could send each pixel to a php script, and have the php script render an image... that would be horribly inefficient!

[UrbanMonk]

Yeah, iterate over the pixels using the surface object and build string then send the string to a php script using the get object.

Actually I'm kidding, we really need a print object for the flash runtime. I've seen bunch of flash apps do this.

[Atom]

Yeah AS3 can do printing -

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/printing/package-detail.html

It's just there is no object for this yet, hopefully the AS coding object will allow it though.

[Looki]

It will.

[Atom]

Nice, i can't wait to try the new AS3 coding object.

MMF2 is actually getting quite good for coding options now with Lua, Python, C#/DotNet, Basic, OpenGL, C++ (For Extensions), HLSL (HWA), AS3 (Soon) and other options like ActiveX/DLLs/XML and parsing features. This is great and i hope this continues with MMF3 also when that is released.

[Looki]

More to come in the future.. *cough*