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I’m currently developing a website in ASP .NET MVC and I require functionality for a user to be able to draw a picture on a canvas which can be saved in a database. What is the best method for doing this? preferably a very lightweight solution. I was thinking flash would be the most accessible platform and there may be some good free solutions.
Thanks
Flash can do it pretty easily, though you’ll have to get your back-end set up to enable it. Basically you can draw anything on your stage to a bytearray of pixel data, then encode that bytearray to comply with for instance the .PNG specification. Then you send the whole package over to your back end as a byte array and make sure that your server-side scripts know to write it as a .png file to your server, then save the location in your database. Does that make sense?
A broad example can be found here on the Flex Cookbook: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Creating_a__png_file_from_a_webcam_image-12732.html