Comments on: AS3: Take a screenshot of any Displayobject

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:34:02 +0000

If you’d like to adjust the center point of your screenshot for centered display objects you can use a matrix to shift it over.

var rect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, target.width, target.height); var matrix:Matrix = new Matrix(); matrix.translate(target.width/2, target.height/2); var bd:BitmapData = new BitmapData(rect.width, rect.height, true, 0x00000000); bd.draw(clip, matrix);

By: SteveInSpain

SteveInSpain — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:24:46 +0000

Just what I needed. Thanks. AS3 I will tame you!

By: Tiago

Tiago — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:25:40 +0000

cool

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:10:05 +0000

Nvm mate! Already got it working

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:55:05 +0000

It doesn’t work for me. I’m a bid noob but this is exactly what i am looking for. I have multiple movieclips overlayed and i want to make 1 image of it. I pasted the codes into the action panel and when i run the swf nothing happens. Don’t know when he makes the snapshot or when he shows the snapshot. I feel kinda stupid..

Can you maybe zip the files or something so i can take a look at it? Let me know. I would really appreciate it!

Sorry if my english isn’t perfect.

By: Tiago

Tiago — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:36:25 +0000

That is absolutely correct, bitmap data always starts at the registration point. so if you have a registration point centered the bitmap data would miss the upper and the left part of the display object. Nevertheless when working on a pure AS3 project your registration point is anyway set to 0,0 upper left (unless you change it ). Valid point. Thanks for the warning Mr. Anonymous

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:28:05 +0000

This works only if the origin of display object is in upper left corner; if it is e.g. in center, bitmapdata is filled in draw command around the upper left corner leaving down-right part empty

By: motionmouse

motionmouse — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:00:33 +0000

Ok, found the solution and it was also posted here earlier. just use ‘stage’ as myimage. for some reason this didnt work the first time round but now does yay! ^-^

By: motionmouse

motionmouse — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:11:13 +0000

Hi, thanks for the code! I cannot seem to figure out how to make a printscreen of the stage containing many displayobjects.

example: my stage contains many movieclips which are placed together to form one image.

Ive figured out how to place these displayobjects into one screenshot but the problem is that each displayobject is centered in the screenshot. I need the screenshot to portray the displayobjects in their original position. Is there another option than placing all the diffrent displayobjects into one movieclip?

hopefullly ive ilustrated the problem clearly…

By: The Hoff

The Hoff — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:32:08 +0000

Nice one, thanks for the code!

By: tom elliott

tom elliott — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:30:32 +0000

Thanks, works well

By: Tiago

Tiago — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:40:50 +0000

Yep absolutely, you can use the same method like i’ve shown in this post.