Saving bitmaps

programming flash
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I used the kirupa drawing tutorial to create a simple doodle application.

Heres the code:



_root.container.mcDraw.createEmptyMovieClip("line",1);

_root.onMouseDown = function(){
	line.moveTo(_xmouse,_ymouse);
	line.lineStyle(1,colour,100);
	
	this.onEnterFrame = function(){
		if (drawing == true){
		line.lineTo(_xmouse,_ymouse);
	}
	}
}
_root.onMouseUp = function(){
	this.onEnterFrame = null;
}

I really need a way to save the doodle created to a server and then reload it at a later date. It could either be as a file or as data that meant it could be redrawn.

I’ve looked into exporting as a bitmap but the methods seem very complex and also slow/relatively large file sizes (it is only a simple doodle application!!!).

I also found this site

http://jerryscript.hostrocket.com/flash/draw/basic/SWFDrawing2JPEG.html

but it doesn’t even seem to be working on the site. I had a look at the code but couldn’t really get to the bottom of how it worked

Is there no easy way to save a movieclip out as an swf file dynamically?

Any help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks.