[Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Anyone know if there's a way to draw the contents of a SWF to a Bitmap/BitmapData object within Flash? I have a SWF that involves lots of complex rendering steps and I want to be export it as a bitmap. The export part should be fine (using a server to actually save the file) if I can figure out

Re: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Hi, you mean something like this: var bitmapData1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(200, 200, false, 0x00); bitmapData1.draw(myMC,new Matrix()); ? greetz JC On 3/21/07, Douglas Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know if there's a way to draw the contents of a SWF to a Bitmap/BitmapData

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

CHK OUT bitmap.draw(); :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Pearson Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:56 PM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap? Anyone know if

Re: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Anyone know if there's a way to draw the contents of a SWF to a Bitmap/BitmapData object within Flash? I have a SWF that involves lots of complex rendering steps and I want to be export it as a bitmap. The export part should be fine (using a server to actually save the file) if I can figure out

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Anyone know if there's a way to draw the contents of a SWF to a Bitmap/BitmapData object within Flash? I have a SWF that involves lots of complex rendering steps and I want to be export it as a bitmap. The export part should be fine (using a server to actually save the file) if I can

Re: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Hey Douglas, To answer your question, the technique is to create a BitmapData object initialized to the width/height of your movieclip, you then call draw() passing the movieclip you want to convert. This is something I've done in Flex. It's much easier in AS3 as there are jpeg/png encoders

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Have you tried loading the swf inside a MovieClip and then trace the MovieClip to a BitmapData object ? I don't know if the same security restrictions apply to swf files as with image files ... Alain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [Flashcoders] Anyway way to capture a SWF as a bitmap?

Thanks to everyone who pointed out the bitmapData.draw() method! I had seen that in passing but didn't realize that IBitmapDrawable supported all display objects. Thanks folks--that should do nicely. Doug -Original Message- From: Hans Wichman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,