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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