I need to be able to export a flash movieclip as a bitmap, send it to the server, and save it as an image. Quasimondo provided some ActionScript and PHP code, but I can't seem to make it work with ColdFusion... does anyone out there successfully accomplished this or want to give a try at translating the php code?

Any help will be appreciated... Please drop me an email if you have something or willing to give it a shot.

The images can make it to CF in any format, which will be converted later to a jpeg, but you don't have to worry about that part.

You may use up to Flash 8 and ColdFusion 7.

I know, to those who know me this is kind of a weird post... I haven't been much of a spry follower but I chose to give it a second try and these are my two cents:

• Spry is great for dynamic data with static layouts
• You can get more control over the raw data using Spry.Utils.loadURL and request.xhRequest.responseText
• xml is heavy, but Adobe will probably add JSON support very soon
• I haven't stress-tested it yet, so I wonder if Adobe is aware of some of the IE flaws -- fires requests randomly

• Distribute a source and a compressed version. Libraries like this should be jsmin'd in every production environment and not everyone knows this... so just make it easier.
• Modularize it and allow us to load only what we need, at least provide the source in separate files so I can merge them and jsmin it myself with only what I need... provide bootstrapping, engine, utils, logging, effects, all in different files... If I'm only using the engine, which should weight close to 30k I don't want to load 200k.

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I just modified my captcha to be a little simpler, thanks to Charlie for posting this suggestion. Captcha helped reduce spam, but it bothers even me when replying to comments... All I did was modifying the XML configuration to make is shorter and easier to read, which will still prevent automated posts but make it easier for humans.