Since no one replied yet, I'll take a stab (consequently, Fridays are the slowest days of the week; I guess some geeks actually have lives...weird!).
- Flash 8 has some great image editing capabilities, but Flex currently does not have the built-in API to support that unless you do pure ActionScript. Hopefully Flex 2.0 will, but for now, you're going to have to compile for 8, or purchase Flash 8 to get the most out of it. - There have been a plethora of progams done in Flash that could easily be ported to Flex in that past that allow creation & editing of images. However, non of which have I known to produce actual output; that wasn't the point. Everything from aniamtions that are created frame by frame, to recorded drawings like the famous GE drawing pad that plays back your drawing and allows you to send it to a friend via a URL, to server-side saved Whiteboards. Each drawing engine ends up also being the display engine; there is no need for a bitmap output. This may be useful, no? - Finally, the best at doing this, although, still confused on how to get this to work in the browser is Director's Shockwave. Director has a great imaging API, and using the binary API Xtra, you can output images. I don't know, however if the binary API is websafe, so you may have to somehow extract the data in a read-able format by the server, and I'm not sure really how to extract binary data that way. The editing features you are requesting can be done in all 3; Flickr has a great implementation of editing and adding metadata to photos, but those photos are cropped and uploaded through a browser interface. If you are looking for saving to the harddisk, however, I know of no broser implementation that will do that; access to that is offlimits. Macromedia Central has a decent implementation of file access, and Director makes exe's which can do the same. I guess, to what degree does the "I" in "RIA" really matter to you? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bim Paras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:11 PM Subject: [flexcoders] R&D Question - Image Manipulation w/ Flex? Hello everyone... I have an R&D question regarding Flex's capability as an online image manipulation platform. Currently my company is looking into developing an online application to do simple image manipulation via the browser. A typical case scenario is the application loads an image into memory and the user can rotate, flip, crop, etc all in the browser. Then when the user is satisfied, the application will save the image changes to disk. Thus far I have been leveraging the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API to automatically create thumbnails on the server-side after a user uploads their images. However the next step is to give these users an RIA experience in manipulating these uploaded images. So that's where hopefully Flex can be the platform to support this. I have also looked into using the JAI API within a Java applet but that's where I am at a crossroad in terms of making a development decision - Flex or JAI applet? If anyone can give me some guidance, references, or any tips, I would really appreciate it. Thank you. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hf8njho/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1705007207:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124569045/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
