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Since recently we create a thumbnail image of every Floorplanner plan that is saved. To create a 240×180px image we use the BitmapData class (AS2) to get the pixel info and we send it to our server to create the PNG/JPG.

It can happen that the content (images, swf’s) has to be loaded from a different server then the server that holds the HTML page with the Flash app. We noticed that the Flash Security Sandbox doesn’t like that (surprise!) by not allowing us to use the BitmapData.draw(..) method.

Abdul found a solution for AS3 and we ported it to AS2. We only needed a way to load the crossdomain.xml file from the domain of the HTML page. This sniplet uses Javascript to determine the domain and loads the policy file (crossdomain.xml) from it.

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var url:String =  String( ExternalInterface.call(
    "function(){ return document.location.href.toString();}"
));
var split:Array = lCurrentUrl.split( "/" );
System.security.loadPolicyFile( "http://"+ split[2] +"/crossdomain.xml" );