Taking a picture from user's webcam a la Facebook

Question

i didn't find a recent question so somethign might have changed:

there is any widget, ready to use, to integrate with my website in order for my users to take a picture of themselves ala Facebook when they register to my site? i guess is Flash/flex based

thanks

Answer 1

don't know of a widget, but it's not too tough to write something like this... access the camera, save image to a bitmapdata object, use as3corelib to encode it to jpeg (http://github.com/mikechambers/as3corelib)and post it to your server using PHP or other middleware script.

This tutorial gets you pretty close to where you want to be: http:// www.adobe.com/devnet/air/ajax/quickstart/articles/jpeg_file_upload.html

If you don't want to write your own, you could always buy a component: http://www.buystockflash.com/Take-My-Picture-v1.0-/-WebCam/flash-animation-251.html