How to capture Flash images from Selenium?

Question

Is there any way to capture flash images presented in web sites using selenium ide or RC?

Answer 1

Have you seen http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium ?

Answer 2

• Inject action script to flash object to communicate with javascript, then selenium can control them via javascript
  • cons: We must have modification access to flash object to in order to inject action scripts for automation
  • ref:
    • http://www.testinggeek.com/index.php/testing-tools/test-execution/145-flash-object-automation-using-selenium
    • "http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/"
    • "http://code.google.com/p/flex-ui-selenium/"

• Native Flex automation engine e.g. FlexMonkey : Adobe’s record-playback tool for flash "http://flexmonkey.gorillalogic.com/gl/stuff.flexmonkey.html"
  • cons: Cannot test embedded flash