# Using Flash to do Screen Captures of Applications

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-flash-to-do-screen-captures-of-applications/89537>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-flash-to-do-screen-captures-of-applications/89537 "2005-05-09T15:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/48db29/32.png) [@Ril](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ril)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-flash-to-do-screen-captures-of-applications/89537/1 "2005-05-09T15:08:31Z")

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I saw this program ‘asap’ (i think it’s called, will try and get more info about it) but it’s flash that uses the Flash player settings screen to setup a way of capturing the users desktop or any application currently running.

How can this be done? I thought that the only limitation in flash is to not interact with the users machine (writing files etc) because this is a security risk.