Saving "coded" shapes.?

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Hey there,

I am wondering how is it possible to Save or Export a drawing which is done by code produced wihthin the swf??

For example we have some lines where the user could draw on a board and after finishing his artwork he could export it as a bitmap or even better as an eps or swf…

anyone?

cheers UTE

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http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23834

Another question along the same lines.
Flash does not support a lot in the way of exporting information, so it will involve extensive server side coding in any case, but you could save a drawing as an array of points, put it into an xml document, and write something to try to turn that into a bmp in some other language.
I have no clue what any of that will involve. Something more my speed…
if the user has a pc, pushing the print screen button will copy the whole screen, and by pasting into windows paint you can save the screen capture. Thats about as far as flash can go.

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Ahmed did something similar saving the coordinates of the created clip to an array in a mySQL database or something. I personally have no clue at all how to do this, but I don’t think it’s easy.

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http://www.f-mod.com/?p=2
is all u need

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wow, thats awesome.

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yes ;D

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That’s awesome!..

and about my thing, it wasn’t really hard, i log the mouse positions in two arrays, one for x and another for y… then i convert both the arrays to strings and save them in a mySQL db :slight_smile:
it’s pretty useless now though, swfdraw2jpg seems real cool

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ahmed: Storing the X,Y positions of the mouse isn’t hard, but I don’t know much about server-side Flash and I know nothing about mySQL, so for me it would be hard :stuck_out_tongue:

But when you say it like that, if I were to learn how to use a mySQL database, I could totally do that :beam:

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haha… you were talking about a new host you got that lets you do more php stuff, does it give you a mysql database too? :slight_smile:

using php/mysql to store and pull data is easy really, you should get into it :wink:

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Yes my new host allows me to use a mySQL database :slight_smile:

I really want to get into PHP and mySQL, and I really need to learn server-side Flash so I should be getting into that shortly. I already know XML in Flash, and loading variables via text files into Flash and things like that, I just need to learn about PHP/mySQL and how they work with Flash, etc, etc.

It should be… interesting :-\ :stuck_out_tongue:

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yeah… i need to learn how to parse xml… that should be interesting :-\ :stuck_out_tongue:

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It’s not as hard as you would think, especially if you know how to parse stuff already :stuck_out_tongue: