You can keep the Javascript and use an ExternalInterface to communicate with it.
Alternatively, use navigateToURL to call the required URL and pass it the correct window so the browser handles it. Gk. Gregor Kiddie Senior Developer INPS Tel: 01382 564343 Registered address: The Bread Factory, 1a Broughton Street, London SW8 3QJ Registered Number: 1788577 Registered in the UK Visit our Internet Web site at www.inps.co.uk <blocked::http://www.inps.co.uk/> The information in this internet email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is not authorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of INPS or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Jones Sent: 06 November 2008 19:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] httpservice/save-as question I already have working code that uses HttpService to send various requests to the backend from my Flex client and process the responses. I also have a customized implementation of the flex DataGrid which implements paging such that the flex client only shows one page of data at a time. The customized control has buttons to issue page forward/backward requests to the backend to get a different page of data. These requests are sent to the backend with HttpService. I have a requirement to save all pages in CSV format on the clients desktop. Prior to flex we had an HTML/Javascript implementation of tables which had the same sort of feature - in that version, the backend would retrieve all of the data, format into csv, and change the content-type on the HTTP response header to "text/csv" and then setting the content-disposition to "attachment, filename=file.csv". The net result was that the browser itself would take care of displaying a dialog that says something like "Do you want to open or save this file?" I haven't been able to get the same sort of behavior to work with a request generated by the Flash Player. I have my code in the backend modify the HTTP headers in the response to my flex export-to-csv request, but the browser neers displays its open/save dialog - the response always gets directed back to the flash player. Is there a way to make this work? Thanks, Glenn
