apache flex - AS3: Export a MovieClip or Canvas to swf

Question

I'm having an app where the user can edit a simple greeting card and should be able to send it to another user. We are currently doing it by exporting to a graphic file and sending with some server script.

Now - we found a need to export that card to swf. This card is basically a (Flex) Canvas holding some images and labels.

What do you say? Can that be done? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Deep copy the MovieClip object to a ByteArray and dump it to a file.

var buffer:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
buffer.writeObject(MOVIE_CLIP_HERE);
buffer.position = 0;
buffer.writeBytes(...);