Re: FLASH: saving user's drawing

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Marcelo!


You asked:


>I've seen somewhere a work in Flash where the user could draw on screen and

>then send the result somewhere.


and


>Does anybody knows how can I do it or, at least, what site I'm talking

>about?


Well, um, uh - conflict of interest! :>)


Seriously, you may have been talking about the site I posted on here a month

or so ago:


http://www.sendasketch.com


And this is my own site. 


Disclaimer: not a MM affiliated venture in any way. 


I checked out your site, BTW, and I of course, love the concept.


To answer the "how" part, I'll give you some brief hints about how

sendasketch works.


You create objects on the screen. This is done via Duplicate Movie Clip and

Set Property, much like yours.


Then, to "save" the sketch, you need to have a Loop action that will run

through and set a bunch of variables equal to the properties (x,y, width,

height, type, etc.) of the duplicated movie clips. This data is then sent to

a server-side thing like ASP (in this case) or whatever, which can then

store this data in a text file or database.


Then, to recreate the sketch, use Load Variables and run through another

Loop to use those variables to reassemble the duplicated movie clips using

Set Property, perhaps in a different movie, but not necessarily so.


Let me know if this helps. Post any questions to the list - I'm sure others

may have things to say about this.


I'm happy to offer whatever guidance I can, but I should say there is no

right way to do this, as everyone's implementation of this can and probably

will vary. :>)



Matt


ps - please, everyone, feel free to use this site. It needs *you* to make it

beautiful.


---------------

Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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