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Just a quick post mostly as a reminder to myself on how to easily create Icons for your Adobe AIR applications.
Once the application has finished Initializing i add a button to the main view. that calls a method called takeSnapShot( e : MouseEvent ); that writes the application out to the desktop as a PNG file.

 
private function takeSnapShot( e : MouseEvent ) : void
{
  var bm : BitmapData = new BitmapData( Capabilities.screenResolutionX,
Capabilities.screenResolutionY, true, 0x00FFFFFF );
 
       bm.draw( view );
 
	var ba : ByteArray;
	var pnge : PNGEncoder = new PNGEncoder( );
	     ba = pnge.encode( bm );
 
  var file : File = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath( "SnapShot.png" );
  var filestream : FileStream = new FileStream( );
     filestream.open( file, FileMode.WRITE );
     filestream.writeBytes(ba);
     filestream.close();
}