# Is it possible to capture the desktop to view within flash?

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**Created:** [December 16, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655 "2001-12-16T16:03:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655/1 "2001-12-16T16:03:57Z")

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**Post date:** [December 16, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655/2 "2001-12-16T20:08:09Z")

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Hit your PrintScreen key and paste in flash.

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**Post date:** [December 17, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655/3 "2001-12-17T03:21:56Z")

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Thank you, I do know how to capture the desktop image that way while making the flash movie but is there any way that a compiled movie by use of sendkeys or other script, can copy any desktop image and paste it in the background of the running movie? Hope that makes sense.

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**Post date:** [December 17, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655/4 "2001-12-17T03:38:05Z")

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I have tried it before and has been proven impossible with Flash 5 because Flash can only detect ASCI keys!

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**Post date:** [December 17, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655/5 "2001-12-17T19:55:02Z")

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When you capture your screen, as long as you don’t paste this into a bitmap processing program like paint, Photoshop or PSP and then save it, there’s no “physical” image, so what would your swf do with? can’t paste/ set as bg s’thing that doesn’t exist yet! and flash is vectors, not aimed at handling bitmaps…

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**Post date:** [December 18, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-it-possible-to-capture-the-desktop-to-view-within-flash/3655/6 "2001-12-18T07:13:15Z")

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