Printing with flash

[micdune]

Hi everybody. I'm a newcomer to this forum.

I've a question regarding printing in flash. I've done a small program helping you designing your own tee-shirt : you've got a template where you can alter the shape and the colors of a character and where you can put items grabbed from another place (these are duplicated instances by the way).

My problem is that i'd like to print out the whole area where you've designed your character and put your items, maximizing the print size by focusing only on these elements.

I've used the print command along with the "bmovie" parameter but i can't select several clips to be printed (i can only target one clip at a time).

So i'd like to know if there is any way of telling flash to print an area from a scene,no matter what are the elements being in this area ( a kind of "hardcopy" of the screen in fact).

Thanks for any help or advices here.

PS :i've put a snapshot so that can you can figure out what i'm speaking of !

[petefs]

the most elegant way, although maybe not the simplest considering the work you may have already done, is to have all the elements that are moved into that area moved into a blank movieclip that will contain all of those instances. That way you can target a single clip that contains all the relevant clips to be printed, and by giving that clip a background colour or at least a blank alpha graphic you can make sure that the size of the printed area is consistent : ) hope that helps, I've never done printing in flash ^_^

[micdune]

Thanks for your tip. Could you give me some hints on the syntax i should use to copy one clip from a stage to a blank movie clip ? So far i just know how to attach a movie clip from the library to another movie clip from the stage.

Again thanks for your help.