Thanks. I ended up (after seriously considering porting to AS3 and having it *serve itself* a file through flash.net.socket :D ) getting over my prejudice against extended projectors and using Screenweaver HX, which actually seems pretty nice.
Cheers, Henry On 22/01/07, Andrew J Kirkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I managed something like this by embedding my Flash movie in a Director movie, which managed the saving of the XML. I'm afraid I no longer have access to the files, but I seem to remember it didn't take me very long to implement. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:11 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] Saving out XML direct from Flash? > 'lo all > > I'm noodling around with a little app that I'd like to be able to write > out > some internally generated XML directly to the user's hard disc. Preferably > with a nice FileReference type interface. > > But this seems next to impossible. I was hoping it would be possible to > hack > FileReference to take file conetent from a variable, rather than a URL, > but > that looks like a no-go. My second idea was to write to a SharedObject, > then > pass that through FileReference, but I can't find a way of finding out the > path to the SO file within Flash. I've spent the afternoon reading about > MMSave, FSCommand "save" and ASnative(302, 0) and coming to the conclusion > that they're deprecated as hell and useless to me. > > So does anyone have any good suggestions? I'm not averse to dirty hacks, > but > this is a standalone app, so I can't bounce the file back off a server, > and > I really don't want to use one of those weird extended projectors if I can > avoid it. > > Cheers, > Henry > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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