[osflash] FP8 screen screenshot by code? - PNG port

[Daniel Wabyick]

I have started porting an open-source Java PNG encoder library. The goal 
would be to ship an array of integers (bytes) to the server that 
represent a PNG. Then the server just writes that array to disk.

I got hung up at porting a particular zlib compressio library - jzlib,  
although Ralf's J2AS actually got me quite far.  I was considering 
starting an OSFlash project for it, but I could use a little help as 
establishing naming conventions for "porting" an OS licensed project to 
a different langauge.  If anyone is interested let me know and maybe we 
can get this hammered out.  Would be quite useful to all, I think!

Thanks,
-D


David Rorex wrote:

>On 8/21/05, Carl-Alexandre Malartre <osflash at netmaths.net> wrote:
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>
>>Hi, 
>>
>>I was wondering, can FP8 take screenshot of the user's activity and send
>>them to the server? 
>>
>>With the new pixel access, can FP8 send bitmap data to the server? 
>>
>>This would be incredible for crash reporting. In one of our apps, we have a
>>button where people can complain. Maybe it could attach a screenshot of the
>>app at the same time. 
>>
>>Thanks 
>>    
>>
>
>You could take a 'screenshot', but ONLY of whats running inside your
>particular instance of flash.
>
>The only problem is, there is no image compression routines built into
>flash. Also there are issues with sending raw data to the server. So
>the screen capture first of all would be pretty slow (you have to read
>each pixel one at a time), and then the data to upload would be pretty
>big (several megabytes...unless you implemented PNG compression in
>actionscript or something)
>
>-David R
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