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Simulating User Event

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I have a web page with a file swf and an HTML button: when I click the button I want to save (download to my disk) the current image my swf file is showing (it is a sort of image g

Solution 1:

Solution (or not as the case may be)

Flash based

Currently I would say your best bet is to stick with your button operating from within Flash. If you need to dislocate the button from your main Flash runtime, you could try what you are doing using two embeds of Flash and communicate between them using LocalConnection. I wouldn't recommend this however as LocalConnection is a pain to get working well, and there is no guarantee that you wont come up against security sandbox problems working across two instances.

Server-side based

You could implement a save system that would involve sending the image data back to a server and forming an actual URL that your front end could request. This would allow you to specify whatever you wanted for the download. The downsides to this are that it requires a server (so wont work for offline apps), it also requires quite a lot of hassle of sending the image data one way only to pull it down later...

I've gone in to more detail about this here:

Canvas Image to an Image file

HTML5 based

Currently I wouldn't recommend the Data URL download as I suggested in my comment because it is not a complete solution yet. However, on the plus side I'd keep an eye out on what the top browsers are implementing though, because that answer could change shortly.

Workings

Basically I just tried to implement an image download via a data URI (thinking this would be the best solution for your poblem), which all works fine, plus you could quite happily derive the Base64 data you need from your BitmapData object. However, the problem is that there is no way to specify a filename along with the download. So you end up with rather ugly filenames that don't even have the correct extension.

<ahref="data:image/octet-stream;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQAQMAAAAlPW0iAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAAM0lEQVR4nGP4/5/h/1+G/58ZDrAz3D/McH8yw83NDDeNGe4Ug9C9zwz3gVLMDA/A6P9/AFGGFyjOXZtQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC">Click to Download File</a>

After researching a bit it seems there isn no workable workaround for this, but there are specifications that are ready to be implemented that would help:

<adownload="filename.png"href="data:image/octet-stream;...">Download File</a>

The download attribute is designed for precisely the problem I mention above, and would allow naming of the download. Unfortunately I can't find a browser that implements it yet...

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