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iamnotbored.com » Blog Archive » flash actionscript force download — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:37:28 +0000

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By: Serg

Serg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:52:19 +0000

Hello everyone,

May be you would be interested to look at another flash upload utility:
http://www.easyalgo.com/eaflashupload.aspx. It has three different user interfaces and many advanced features such as: send variables as form fields values, retrive browser cookie, assign description for each file, JavaScript API, compatibility with Flash Player 10 security restrictions.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:01:06 +0000

Yes, I need this to work in AS3 also, please help,

Thanks!

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:47:19 +0000

How can I get this to work in AS3?

Truly,

By: guy

guy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:00:41 +0000

Do you have any ideas on how to resize images on the client side prior to uploading? I’ve already worked out an activex control but I am trying to find something compatible w mozilla as well

By: matt

matt — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:22:22 +0000

Please can someone post a fla for this? does this code go on a button or a frame - i suspect frame - but if so, how do you reference it from a button?

By: yoyo

yoyo — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:25:07 +0000

http://www.blog.lessrain.com/swfsamples/download2.html it works here XD

By: yoyo

yoyo — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:17:51 +0000

It doesn’t work!

By: timo

timo — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:11:00 +0000

I was having problems with FileReference.download(), but

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00002210.html

had the answer. The instance of FileReference should not go out of scope during the download process. In other words, if you’re working with classes, define the filereference as a class member instead of a local variable in a method. Hope this helps.

However, I’m still not quite satisfied with the download functionality. Would anyone have an idea if it is possible to use the browser default download agent to handle the download? It would be great if on Firefox for example the usual Downloads window would display the Flash downloads also…

By: zachary

zachary — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:26:50 +0000

I found this solution, and also encountered all the problems of many before me. After some digging I’ve narrowed my problem with the fileReference to two flash 8/9 security changes.

First off, make sure you have crossdomain access covered.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14213&sliceId=1

Also, if you use a relative file path to the images location it will need to be relative to the actual swfs location, and not the html location the swf is loaded into.

hope this helps.
z

By: Aikido

Aikido — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:17:18 +0000

I was looking for something like this and I didn’r expect to find it that quickly. God bless Google Thanks a lot!

By: Alfonso

Alfonso — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:36:51 +0000

I created my own flash MP3 downloader and it worked on some computers and not on others? I found out that the security levels were blocking my mp3 files from being downloaded. specifically “Submit nonencrypted form data” should be enabled. anyway I can’t download the above image and I’m using IE 6, but I found a site that might help resolve this issue.
hopefully this helps everyone!

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=3637d5c3

By: george margaris

george margaris — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:21:15 +0000

works fine.

By: artisan

artisan — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:49:46 +0000

I need a script or something that would work on a distributable cd-rom... The http thing wont work. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:20:42 +0000

Hi,

it does work for me. Maybe you just think it doesn’t work because no download dialog pops up. At least this is what normally happens. So just check if the file is download you won’t see a classic style download window

By: hibit

hibit — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:25:42 +0000

It doesnt seem to work when downloading a file from a FTP server. Does only supports downloads over http?

Any ideas?

By: rt

rt — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:29:50 +0000

Hi,
I am working with upload and download(FileReference).Both upload and download works for .txt files but not for other files.The file size is returned as 0 for others.
Please help!!

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:16:26 +0000

I’m having the same problem with some code I’ve developed. It seems to work when the content of the file is text but not with any other file content types (changing the extensions doesn’t fix it).

Has anyone come across a solution yet?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:16:59 +0000

bump Â» Did anyone ever figure out why files over 20k wonâ€™t download..

Anyone know about this? I am having this problem right now.

Thank you! Aaron

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:55:09 +0000

Works in FF on MAC/Tiger…AND FF on the PC/XP! I dont know what you guys are talking about…