Problems loading from a live webserver

[Jeff]

the URL: http://www.ytv.com/sitekick/mShowcaseIndex.swf has a SWF that pulls in external SWF files to generate what the user sees.

I would like to grab that final look of the SWF and save as BMP but when i try loading it in all I geta are the resources directly in the SWF... basically just the text.

the following code works fine if all of the elements are located directly in the one SWF but it does not seem to work if the SWF calls external SWF files for more info.

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         string flashUrl = "http://www.ytv.com/sitekick/mShowcaseIndex.swf";
         WebClient myClient = new WebClient();
         Stream response = myClient.OpenRead(flashUrl);
            FlashPlayerControl1.PutMovieFromStream(response);
         response.Close();


could you show me the proper code to make this happen?

[Softanics]

Thank you for your question.

The current version doesn't support streaming, i.e. loading from a custom stream. But in your case you can use the property FlashProperty_Movie:

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string flashUrl = "http://www.ytv.com/sitekick/mShowcaseIndex.swf";
FlashPlayerControl1.FlashProperty_Movie = flashUrl;


[Jeff]

that worked perfectly! thanks.

if the game concept goes thorugh i imagine I'll be buying the component this weekend.

I don't suppose there's the ability to save directly out to GIF or JPG is there? I can manipulate that on my end but if its all in one place that's even better.


thanks for the help,

[Softanics]

I don't suppose there's the ability to save directly out to GIF or JPG is there?

You can get a bitmap of a current frame and save it in any format.