Capture what is done during a MouseDown event

[ckeezer]

Ok.. I have a canvas which I am currently able to write to and then save what is written off to a png file.. works like a champ.. problem is that using ImageSnapshot takes a physical snapshot of the area... including the white background.

What I want to do is only get what was drawn during the mousedown event on my canvas. Is that possible? if so, how would I go about doing it?

Thanks,
Chuck

[ckeezer]

Any ideas floating around out there?

[rawmantick]

Here is an idea (not sure, you gonna test it).

Instead of canvas you use UIComponent. Add a sprite with nothing drawn on it to theat UIComponent. And dra on the sprite.

After that you can http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/BitmapData.html#draw() (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/BitmapData.html#draw%28%29)

That's it. But as I've said, I'm not sure... You gonna test it...

[ckeezer]

looks like my biggest problem is that I am not using BitmapData. I will try what you have suggested, and see if there is anything else out there for an example.

Does anyone know of a good example? or have experience with doing something similar?

Thanks for the help.