Is it possible to capture the desktop to view within flash?

[Artful]

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[thoriphes]

Hit your PrintScreen key and paste in flash.

[Artful]

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Thank you, I do know how to capture the desktop image that way while making the flash movie but is there any way that a compiled movie by use of sendkeys or other script, can copy any desktop image and paste it in the background of the running movie? Hope that makes sense.

[dan4885]

I have tried it before and has been proven impossible with Flash 5 because Flash can only detect ASCI keys!

[eyezberg]

When you capture your screen, as long as you don't paste this into a bitmap processing program like paint, Photoshop or PSP and then save it, there's no "physical" image, so what would your swf do with? can't paste/ set as bg s'thing that doesn't exist yet! and flash is vectors, not aimed at handling bitmaps..

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