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 Posted by jasen on 01/18/07 09:42 
On 2007-01-17, FrozenNorth <frozennorth123@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Jeckyl tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck: 
> 
>>> Can anyone with Firefox who has version 9 
>>> of Flash check the save functionality and tell me if it'll let you 
>>> actually save the graphic: 
>>> http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/Sprite_Test/index.php 
>>  
>> After saving (when using Flash Player 9 in FireFox) the new window shows a 
>> tealish coloured rectangle (if I try to save the image, it tries to save 
>> as 
>> PNG).  In IE7 with Flash Player 9, the new window has QuickTime content 
>> showing the same sized tealish colored rectangle, but with the character 
>> images inside it. 
> 
> Odd, using Flash 9.0d78 in Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Linux, I got a new window, 
> teal background with the character images.  It would have been saved as a 
> PNG if I has cared enough to actually save it.   
 
you should try saving it, in mozilla it displays fine, and seems to save,  
but when I open the saved image I get a black rectangle. 
 
> But damn, the save progress bar was sloooowww. 
 
It converts each 24 bit pixel into about 17 bytes of ascii data... 
 
the uploaded query is about 800K  
 
There must be a better way.  Can flash do zlib compression? 
even a simple RLE would help. 
 
Bye. 
   Jasen
 
  
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