At first, I was searching related tutorial about capture image in flash and save as jpg but there are no much results for it. (Although using webcam in flash are quite common but wonder why there are no much tutorial for it, maybe is because save as jpg image require php knowledge)
Fortunately, I found some tutorial with source file provided:
- Access Webcam with Flash
- Captures images from the webcam and save them to the desktop
- Photo Booth – Flash Webcam Image Capture
Most of them are using AS3.0 but the "Access Webcam with Flash" tutorial by Kevin Musselman is using AS2.0 so I decided to refer to that because I am more familiar with AS2.0
The tutorial divided to many parts and explained each section of it, but some part are still quite hard to understand. The author was using script to create the button but I choose to create directly in flash stage.
To fully test the function, it required a server (I don't know how to call it) for the php file, so I installed XAMPP for apache localhost server. But I am having a big problem and stuck at there for a long time, the problem is no image are saved after clicked the save button. After keep on research and testing, I found out that was a stupid mistake. The author didn't provided the php file but provided the php code in his website, and I just copy paste it into my php file but forgot to put in the php tag ( < ?php ?> ), sure it won't work. After added the php tag, it worked!
After that, I started to add the "Free Transform" function that posted before into the flash.
Firstly I tried to put the object that can be transform directly on the stage in flash, but it can't be saved in the image. Then I tried to put it in the movieclip that hold the bitmap data when the image is captured, but it still didn't work.
After tired many way to fix this problem, I found a way to solve which is attach the movieclip dynamic into the movieclip that hold the bitmap data, and now it can be transform and save in the image.
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