ActionScript 2.0 :: Saving To And Retreiving From The Desktop?
Oct 28, 2005
I am an educator in the public school system and I am in the process of writing a Flash movie/application designed to simplify desktop publishing and put it in the hands of first and second graders.
Is it possible to have a flash movie browse files on the desktop? This would be a prerequisite to my second hurdle, which is saving files to the desktop.
Here�s how it works�the program is designed to allow kids to create either a 4-page or an 8-page booklet with clipart and text out of a single sheet of paper. So at most, there will be 8 text fields which be assigned variable names and then 8 movies containing clipart which will also need a variable assignment. It would be very easy to compile these variables and write them to a text file on the server via PHP, but I would like to write them to a text file on the desktop. Then, later, have the movie find that text file through LoadVars and plug the info back in the appropriate text fields in the program.
Is it possible to save information taken in flash to the desktop? For an example, I have a quiz I want the user to be able to take notes and save it to their desktop in .txt or if possible .doc format. Is something like this possible, if not does anyone have any idea how I can create this type of functionality as well as elaborate on how I can go about accomplishing this?
When I publish the swf file with html, it works fine on my computer. If I send it to my old computer with Win XP and for most other people it works fine. But there are some who just get a black screen when it plays or a "get flashplayer" symbol. They update and it still doesn't work. They do not have a company setting that does not allow them to play the file and I have walked them through the browser settings so that anything should play. But still, no luck.
i'm new to creating desktop applications. I've a working site in php with mysql support. I want to convert this site into a desktop application. Is Adobe AIR or Adobe Flex better?can i use php as such in both AIR and Flex? or should i convert them to xml or something which it uses?
Suppose I develop an application with the logic as a CLI program that can be compiled to various platforms. To add a GUI, I could develop native versions separately for each platform or I could use a cross-platform tool like Tcl/Tk, wxLua, or PyGTK. Some people, like Bruce Eckel and James Ward, promote Flash/Flex on Adobe AIR for this.[code]...
I want to have site visitors be able to put a link to a website on their desktop. Asking them to click on a link, bookmark it, and then save the link to their desktop is too involved. A one click solution is what I'm hoping for, but something like dragging an icon off the .swf to the desktop would be okay.
This post might belong to the As3 forum, but i think i might fit in here too..I am trying to get 2 "windows" or swf to to connect together (one sending event and the other receiving them, one way.) for a desktop application offline. First i thought I should use the localConnection, but it doesnt really work offline, i get errors and sandbox violations Now i am considering the nativewindow with a AIR app. All this using Flash CS5 (not flex). What is the best way to proceed?
Creating some flash desktop apps to be run fullscreen in a condo lobby. I'd like the ability for an administrator to login to the interface and then click a button to 'close' the flash app from within itself, thus closing the flash player and returning to the desktop.
I am trying get one of my buttons to link to a PDF file whichwould not open, but would ask the user where to save the file (i.e.to the desktop), is this possible?
I wish to replace my desktop replacement with a tablet PC I have visions of Cintique-like functionality yet portable majesty...
But the graphics cards on these machines are total crap. However, some graphics card models claim to steal memory from the RAM, so in theory if I soup up the RAM I have a really powerful graphics card?
Anybody out there author on a tablet PC? I'm running Flash CS3, and must make my decision soon![URL]..
I used my Flash encoder to convert a .wmv to .flv and FTP to my server but I cant play it. I can play it fine on my desktop but not on my web page. www.holy-trinity-schoolschool.org/index.html. I ftp'ed the Script file and the .flv but nogo.
I am writing a desktop application and trying to decide between using AIR (FLex) or Java.Some of the requirements for the application are: needing to securely connect to webservices and JMShave a very interactive UI (lots oflittle and big features)displaying videoCommunicate with a C++ applicationTo implement the web services and JMS for Flex we were thinking of using Merapi to communicate with a Java application. Does this mean we should probably go with Java or does the better graphics capabilities of Flex still make it a better choice?
What languages/techniques are used for letting the web browser interact with the desktop, e.g. dragging files to the web browser, dragging files from web browser to desktop, and maybe more features that I'm not aware of.
Can Flex be used for a desktop application whose business logic is written using Java? Everything I've read about flex uses a remoting or http protocol to communicate with the backend via a J2EE server, so I'm not sure how that would work for a desktop app (unless an embedded j2ee server was running in the app).
I create a Flex Desktop App by Flex builder 4. I want to log some debug info into a file , named by process id //var pid:int = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.getPid() ?? var logFile:String = "/var/log/MyApp_"+pid+".log"; Is these any API to get pid in Flex/ActionScript3?
I have been looking all over the internet and I can't find any good (or recent) example from a air application where an image (for example) is dragged from the desktop in the application.
(and this are only the errors at the import section)I know this last one can be replaced by mx.managers.DragManager, but this is another class since than I get errors on "DragManager.acceptDragDrop" for example...
I'm working on a desktop application that uses API keys for Twitter but AFAIK, AIR applicatioons are easy to decompile. I want the processing of the API requests to be client-side, not server-sided. At most, I want to keep the dependency onto the server to as low as possible.
What I'm thinking is sending the API from the server to the AIR app on the first run. I've already seen Shared secret with API in an Ajax Adobe AIR app but my question is a bit different in that, I want to know how secure ELS is?
How does Adobe work it's way to storing stuff into the ELS? Does it go through multiple encryption sessions before finally getting stored somewhere on the computer?
I want to create a simple desktop admin application for an IOS app that will work with a REST api I've built.Couple of years ago I would go with Flex/Air, just makes it very simple. But since I am butt-hurt with the way Adobe have handled Flash in general, I am looking to write it using some different tool.So far, Java Swing looks rubbish (UI-wise I mean). Others aren't cross platform and often too complicated.
Is there any possibility using the drag&drop technology for dragging desktop images onto a flash swf in a HTML document? I would like to be able to load images by dragging a image file from the desktop or file explorer and the traditional way of selecting it clicking the browse button.
I am using SharedObject.Send() for implementing remote desktop sharing feature using Wowza rtmp.I am able to implement it but as time of desktop sharing increases the delay increases at client side.Is there any way by which I can fast forward the process at client side or just keep on current copy of desktop screen and discard all the previous one
can I drag images from browser window to my desktop even if they are inside a flash animation ?I would like to build a website in flash but keep this nice functionality you have with common html/css.
I'm just starting with ActionScript and I want to make an app, but I'm wondering that what I'm thinking of is even possible.Is it possible to make an app that receives a live stream from my desktop??
Have a movie clip simple rectangle with its window focus as being always on top and to act as a drop zone so that if a user were to drag a file from their desktop or windows explorer onto the rectangle that the name of the file could be displayed in a message box or the rectangle itself?Can a flash movie interact with objects dragged onto it from outside the flash movie?My other question is, it possible to gather all the metadata for a file eg if a word doc can the name, author, date created etc be accessed with the example above ?
i am doing a searching algorithm, so let's say the path is from A to B to C and finally D (A->B->C->D) and it is represented in an array, such that path={"A", "B", "C", "D"}; how can i link these four elements to redim as instances on the desktop, such that i have four instances, named A, B, C, D, and also the line which connected to one of the each other, named AB, BC, CD.
for instance, how to set the color line AB, BC, CD? (the array always can be in different set of answers.) before that someone told me dont use the double quotation, but i think that's not working with my program, further more, i need to combine two elements, which represent the line connected to two ends.
i am working on a desktop app and i wont it to read a file from a web server and display the info from the file xml or txt. which would give me the least amount of problems the txt file or the xml file? also i think there is a security issue doing this
I'm trying to use the number pad on my desktop computer to do things..
Code: Key.isDOWN(50){ //do stuff }
Which is the ascii for 2.. the "2" on my keyboard.. which is above the QWERTY works.. but the "2" on my numberpad doesn't..What can i do to make it read the "2" on my numberpad?
