Saving Map Snapshot

This week, while in Redlands for a holistic lab session on the Flex API for ArcGIS Server, a user showed me the following gem. Using the new Flash Player 10 FileReference class, you can create an image snapshot of a map component and save it locally to a file, without a server side service. To compile the application using FlexBuilder, you need to adjust your compiler SDK to version 3.2.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
    xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
    xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/2008/ags"
    layout="vertical"
    >
    <mx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
    import mx.graphics.ImageSnapshot;
    import mx.graphics.codec.JPEGEncoder;
    
    private function clickHandler() : void
    {
        const decoder: JPEGEncoder = new JPEGEncoder();
        map.logoVisible=false;
        map.scaleBarVisible=false;
        map.zoomSliderVisible = false;
        const imageSnapshot:ImageSnapshot = ImageSnapshot.captureImage(map,96,decoder,true);
        map.logoVisible=true;
        map.scaleBarVisible=true;
        map.zoomSliderVisible = true;
        const fileReference:FileReference = new FileReference();
        fileReference.save(imageSnapshot.data,"map.jpg");                
    }
    ]]>
    </mx:Script>
    <esri:Map id="map">
        <esri:ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer
            url="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/ESRI_StreetMap_World_2D/MapServer"/>        
    </esri:Map>
    <mx:Button label="Snapshot" click="clickHandler()"/>
</mx:Application>

Thanks Ofir :-)