Comments on: Upload BitmapData Snapshot to Server in AS3

By: gricceri

gricceri — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:51:35 +0000

I don’t know if this can help someone, but I got flash didn’t executing the request while in fullscreen mode on mac. Toggled from the fullscreen to normal mode and everything worked again.

By: Wellens Ludovic

Wellens Ludovic — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:27:29 +0000

I’m in the same situation than Tom, does anybody have a solution?

By: tom

tom — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:52:54 +0000

Hi,

i’ve been using this in cms system for 18 months, now i’m updating for a new version of the site and it won’t work. i’m pretty sure it’s the stuff to do with the POST headers set by URLRequestWrapper but i get no security errors nor do ANY of the events fire, it just fails silently once DynamicBitmap.upload is called.

any ideas what might be going on?

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:37:20 +0000

trap and display your security errors you will find that is your problem.
flash 10 security model has some funny results when you manipulate images across different domains

By: kanyal

kanyal — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:10:58 +0000

HI
this is working when uploading from local pc but not working when i try it in facebook or other server. when try to upload created snapshot there is no effect no url in status bar to show that request is going to server and just held there.
what can be problem when swf is running from server. can any body help to resolve this issue.
thanks in advance

By: Sundev

Sundev — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:06:04 +0000

It seems like the latest update to Safari on Mac made this break. But, I tweaked it to send the directory being uploaded to as a GET variable appended to the url, deleted the unneeded code in the URLRequestWrapper and that worked.

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:01:08 +0000

@Andy if you remove the third parameter (recursive flag=true) in the call to mkdir($dir, 0777, true); it should run on php4. @Dave sure you could wait for the response from the server that the image upload was successful and then call another php script that generates an email passing to it the url of the image you just created. Your email generating script could use that image url to create the attachment. I suggest grabbing the updated source for this feature from my more recent post here.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:08:27 +0000

First off this is awesome! I would like to have an application that produces a chart and then has the option of emailing that image. I’d like to send the image as an attachment, but with this I could send an email that linked to the image I create on the server.

My question is would it be possible to modify this so that the image was sent directly as an attachment?

thanks!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:58:27 +0000

Is there a way to make this work if you don’t have PHP 5 installed? My server only have PHP 4.3.9, but would still like to use this.

By: eddiem

eddiem — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:07:07 +0000

hi ive got a question?

im doing a drag and drop function in AS2 u can view
it on art.tafe.vu.edu.au/dgalletta/eddie/index.html on the build a t shirt page .

my question is how do i save an image once im happy with the design
and by the way the objects are buttons…can anyone help?

By: RW

RW — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:45:47 +0000

Security violation issues sorted out by removing custom headers line 120 in URLRequestWrapper.as (_request.requestHeaders.push( new URLRequestHeader( ‘Cache-Control’, ‘no-cache’ ) );) Please advise id this is a NO NO.. , but it did the trick for me. Prop got to do with custom headers not being allowed anymore. please correct me if i am wrong.. appreciate the code..

By: devo

devo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:07:07 +0000

“been working with this script and ran into a problem, perhaps you could give me some advise… The script is working fine when I run it from my PC (on Flash CS3), but when I upload it to the server, nothing happens, no request is going to PHP script… :/ I thought it might be some kind of security error in the URLRequest but couldn’t find anything…”

I have the exact same problem. I’ve tried adding the path to the php file as both relative and absolute, still I cannot get images to write to the server when the swf runs outside of the flash ide. Please help.

By: danno

danno — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:47:14 +0000

but doesn’t this hang when trying to export a large stage or MC size ( like 2000px x 2000px ) ?

rocksteady,
danno~

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:41:43 +0000

Would this also work from an AIR app, or could it be modified to work in one?

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:36:41 +0000

Thanks Philipp for your comments. For the record any code that I write and make available on this site is completely free to use in your personal or commercial projects.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:48:47 +0000

I’d like to add to my previous comment that I’ve since contacted Jonathan and he kindly gave us permission to use his class under an MIT license.
But yes, if you’d like to use this in your commercial projects and want to be on the safe side, you’ll need to contact him.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:30:23 +0000

Hi Stephen,

“Absolutely. All code included is open source and available under a BSD license. Enjoy.”

Unfortunately I don’t believe that’s the case. Jonathan Marston licensed the class on which you’re building under a CC non-commercial attribution sharealike license.
To my understanding, this means any derivative work (i.e. software that uses this – and by extension your – code) needs to be licensed under CC itself and may not be of commercial nature.

So it doesn’t look like we can use this freely in our own projects. Which is a pity because it would be just what I need right now.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:10:42 +0000

Hey,

been working with this script and ran into a problem, perhaps you could give me some advise… The script is working fine when I run it from my PC (on Flash CS3), but when I upload it to the server, nothing happens, no request is going to PHP script… :/ I thought it might be some kind of security error in the URLRequest but couldn’t find anything…

Thanks,
Simon

By: harry

harry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:38:43 +0000

I can’t download the source code, there was a problem, can anyone help me ?

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000

Thanks Jason for the note.

I recently installed a lightbox plugin that was doing some funky things on the page and removing that seemed to improve page performance. I appreciate the heads up and will take a closer look. Cheers

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:16:00 +0000

Hey thanks for this

Just a note that on this page my computer was lagging up. Firefox used 485MB of RAM with no other tabs open. Restarted my comp, same thing. Tried IE6 (God forbid!), again no other pages open, and it jumped up to 1.1GB of RAM. Kind of scary.

This has happenned on WindowsXP and Linux (Ubuntu 8.04), using Firefox 3, IE6, Opera and Chrome.

As for what might be causing it, IE6 reported an error in this javascript file:
http://include.reinvigorate.net/re_.js

But Chrome has a task manager that keeps track of how much each plugin is using – and a flash plugin was using 480MB

Anyway, just thought I’d note. I’ve visited this page before and had no issues but I thought it worth reporting. Again, thanks for the help with Actionscript

By: David

David — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:14:13 +0000

I second Bezz’s last comment: What version of Flex has a DynamicBitmap class? I don’t see it here, in Flex 3 documentation:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/all-index-D.html

…
Oh, nevermind, I see it in the source example: it’s a custom class that extends Sprite.
k thanks!

By: Bezz

Bezz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:10:00 +0000

Hi everyone
I’ve made a flash project which is almost complete. The only thing I need to do is to upload a snapshot of a display object. It seems that this script works but I don’t know how to use it.
I will really appreciate if someone tells me how to do it. I mean how to configure my project to import this class file.

When the project gets to this line:
_dbmp = new DynamicBitmap(_target, _filename);

It generates an error:
1080: Call to a possibly undifined method DinamicBitmap

Here is my E-mail in case someone can help me
behzad1122@hotmail.com

Thanks

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:55:39 +0000

@Richard. Indeed code can always be improved upon. If you rewrite this and post a more feature rich version, please share the link.

@Bezz, while this is possible I would encourage you to make a separate call to the server with your form data as you will most likely want to receive some message back from the server after that form data has been processed. By adding it to the data property of the request that contains the encoded image data you may run into decoding problems on the server.

By: Bezz

Bezz — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:38:40 +0000

Hi
I have a question. I was looking for a way to send some variables to the PHP file at the same time. I mean like a HTML form which uploads the file and sends the value of fields at the same time.

Is there a way to do that?
thanks

By: Richard Olsson

Richard Olsson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:33:31 +0000

This works great and I got a chance to use it in production right away. I’m a bit disappointed by the way it’s laid out, API-wise, though, which makes it, while easy to use, also very narrow. But at least it’s an awesome POC!

I might refine the interface and get back to you. (Although for this project I will probably just hack to change file format encoding et c.) Thanks a lot for sharing the code for this method!

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:08:05 +0000

Awesome, thanks a lot!

By: Fausto Carrera

Fausto Carrera — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:37:14 +0000

For AS2 there’s the Quasimodo class:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000645.php#000645

I’ts there a way to calculate the percent of PNG/JPG exportation?

By: Jayden Lawson

Jayden Lawson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:04:41 +0000

This is great. Is there anything similar for AS2?

By: Marvin

Marvin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:07:00 +0000

This has been the most educational AS experience for me ever. Thanks for this! I seem to have everything working properly, but is there a way to get rid of the border around the .png files?

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:31:38 +0000

Absolutely. All code included is open source and available under a BSD license. Enjoy.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:09:42 +0000

Out of all the tutorials and source files out there on how to do this yours was the only one for me that worked straight away. So thanks very much! Can I use this source code freely in my own projects?