flash (macromedia): I need to create a simple image annotator. I need to show an image as the
background and then allow a user to scribble on it. Finally, I need (a button,
I suppose) to burn the annotations onto the background image and allow me to
save it somewhere...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Joe

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The showing of a background image should be amply covered by the first
few tutorials on Flash which yyou of course have done.

The drawing aspect of what you want can be achieved, but will be quite
challening to a newbie. You will need to read up on arrays (to store
co-ordinates), the Flash drawing API and know something about events or
setInterval. There is a basic tutorial that will help you on
actionscripts.org.

Flash cannot achieve the "burn" and save part of your request.

With the appropriate line thicknesses, co-ordinates, colours etc. it
may, should, be possible to farm out the latter part of the process to
PHP. This would be even more complex than the Flash drawing API.

The standard method is saving the required data so flash can re-draw it.