Is it possible to do Full screen screenshot?

[renton79]

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to do a full screen screenshot (like with printscrin in windows)? I know about doing a screenshot of movieclip.

[Groady]

Firstly, you can only 'screenshot' within the Flash player itself.

You could "draw" the stage to a bitmap. Since the stage is the root display object it will draw everything currently visible. There is an exception to this in that there are security limitations on what will draw, mainly thing's loaded externally won't be drawn if they come from a source outside of the current security sandbox. I'm pretty sure the documentation clarifies this better.

If you're outputting as an AIR app you could access the system clipboard to have users paste PrintScreen's which would capture the user's entire screen. I'm not very familiar with AIR so clarify that unfortunately.

[renton79]

Thanks Groady for clarifying this to me, unfortunately this means I need to change my plans :)