Take screen shot with AIR application

here is another solution:
http://blog.everythingflex.com/2008/04/24/do-a-screen-capture-with-adobe-air/

On Windows, you can use this one ...

https://github.com/pcichon/ScreenShooter

it uses Native Extensions for AIR ... sources are included.

Allowing AIR applications to take screen shots is a security issue. This should not be made a feature to AIR developers. There is no reason for it. Let the user take control of his/her own screen snapshot instead of letting a rogue AIR app take screen shot instances in the background and transferring to their servers. Also consider multiple screen displays as well - not just the main screen the app is running on.

I'd be pissed if I had documents up and they were captured and sent to prying eyes by Adobe AIR.

http://simplifiedlogic.com/nitroscreencap

Yes,

I think you can use the ImageSnapShot class, and thern use the bitmap data from it as you desire.

You can use the snapshot to take a grab of any element/child in your application or presumably you can take a snapshot of the main application if you want the whole lot.

I used this method recently to print a screen state.

var imgWidth:Number = 400;
   
var img:SWFLoader = new SWFLoader();
img.id = "appSnapShot";
var imageSnap:ImageSnapshot = ImageSnapshot.captureImage(myScreenInstance as IBitmapDrawable);
var imageByteArray:ByteArray = imageSnap.data as ByteArray;
   
img.load(imageByteArray);
img.scaleContent = true;
img.width = imgWidth;
img.maintainAspectRatio = true;
     
application.addElement(img);

Maybe that will help.