Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 01/17/07 01:52

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:41:52 GMT, 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.

Uh...actually maybe not, that's the whole point. Just because it
DISPLAYS the image in the browser doesn't mean it'll save the
completed graphic.

Yeesh, does ANYONE actually read anything anymore?

>But damn, the save progress
>bar was sloooowww.

Yeah well so far no one, anywhere, has been able to come up with an
alternative solution that's significantly faster. I found like ONE
other example of such a beast where this guy had created an MS Paint
style Flash app. His had a larger canvas size and seemed to save
about 10% to 20% faster than my form...but he didn't give any
information as to what methodology he was using. The key to making it
faster I believe is in extracting the color codes straight out of a
copyPixels function rather than relying on running the getPixel
function on every single individual pixel...although I haven't had
much luck in in figuring that out and haven't been able to find any
examples or documentation...so it might not actually be possible.

>Guess Linux really is the better desktop.

Go find that post where I list all those nifty specialized
applications that are Windows only and then feel stupid. Linux is
awesome for a LOT of stuff...a desktop environment REALLY isn't one of
them. And in fact I think the push to try and make Linux competative
against Windows as a desktop environment has actually done more to
HURT the development and evolution of Linux, rather than help it.
Really if someone wanted to create an alternative form to Windows that
would function as a kick ass desktop environment...yeah...you would
need to create the OS from scratch. Cause Unix/Linux was NEVER
originally designed to be that i --

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