Initially I had a whole post asking questions about why this was the
case (can't reference user-selected file without uploading/
downloading first) but I felt it was pretty OT for the flexcoders
list (or probably flashcoders list for that matter). Does anyone know
of a venue for discussing
Anyone???
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jmfillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to let a user select an image file, using FileReference and
have
the selected image load into Flex and display in the app.
I know how to use FileReference to filter only images and allow them
to
You can't. FileReference doesn't give you any access to the data in a file.
You need to send the file to a server, then download it from the server to
be able to do anything with the File. If you're making an Apollo app then
that's a different story, but for a web-based Flex app all files have to
What about with Apollo? That gives you read/write access to files on a
local machine.
Flex would also have to pass the file to PHP/ColdFusion, so it must get
loaded into the app, before being sent out to the server.
Apollo would work.
I have no specific knowlage but my guess is that flex doesn't actually
access your file system. What it probably does is tell your browser to
access the file system. In any event, this issues has been widely discussed
and there isn't a way around it (unless you can figure
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