Hi All, I saw a thread here suggesting using a HPA to take a browser screenshot, but I was wondering if you could help me. I would like to be able to select a part of a piece of a web page and render it as an image. I know flex can take images of its own canvas, but is it possible to take a picture of the rest of the page?
I would like to be able to do it with just flash and javascript, and without a plugin. I realise that I may be asking for magic, so thanks for your help.
If Flex can do it, then Flash should also be able to do it.
Doing it client side is if nothing else, rather unreliable. Personally I would go for either an external service like http://snapcasa.com/ or if you have access to your server go for a server side solution like http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/
I would say, for security reasons, it would be impossible for you to take a snapshot of the browser itself.
But, you should be able to read the HTML, and then use the Browser component in Flash to display that HTML, then take a screenshot of that. I don't think it'd be as easy as that, but take a look at this post for as a start: Flex.html