February 09, 2004

Screenshot Quirkiness in Flash

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program, Professor FCS, to bring you a short message on "Screenshot Quirkiness in Flash".

While doing some sceenshot/captures of the Flash authoring environment today, I came across something odd when I accidentally pasted back into the Flash.

Below is a screenshot taken using the PrintScreen key and pasted into Photoshop.
normalshot.gif
Nothing strange to see here..please move along..move along...

Now the below is the result if the same capture was pasted into Flash.
flashshot.gif

All of the white background is alpha transparency. It seems to only have captured part of the stage and random icons from both my OS and Flash. Very strange and not something I have ever had happen with another program. Has anyone else experienced this and more importantly, know why it happens?

The system specs are WinXP Pro, Flash MX and an NVIDIA Quadro 4 900XGL graphics card.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. Thank You.

Posted by Kris at February 9, 2004 02:11 PM
　



Comments

the same

Posted by: Danger at February 9, 2004 02:38 PM

Yeah, print screening Flash only captures it pasting into other programs like Fireworks or Photoshop. For some reason, Flash ignores parts of itself when pasted into.

Posted by: JesterXL at February 9, 2004 10:22 PM