I still don't understand how ExternalINterface got involved. I haven't used mx:HTML much, but I would expect you can view most sites that allow downloading and download something.
mx:HTML basically wraps the flash.html package. Read the doc on the those classes. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of shiv_indian Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Embedding HTML page into Flex using Adobe AIR Hi Alex, This is one of requirement from our customer. Is there any alternative for ExternalInterface or is there any feature in <mx:HTML> tag to download files / attachments. Thanks & Regards, Siva Kumar --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > If the embedded HTML contains Javascript that is trying to use ExternalInterface, that won't work, but I don't understand why you would need that to download a file. > > From: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of shiv_indian > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:35 AM > To: [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Embedding HTML page into Flex using Adobe AIR > > > Hi, > > This is Siva Kumar. Need help in embedding an HTML in Flex . We > are using Adobe Air using Flex. To embed an HTML in Flex we used > <mx:HTML> tag. Its working fine but whts the problem is its not > allowing to download files / attachements. To download attachments > do I need to change any files in flex. I tried to use google flex > iframes to resolve this issue. I am able to download > files/attachments if I open application as web / standalone. If I > try to open same application using adobe air its giving error like > > " ExternalInterface is not available in this container. Internet > Explorer ActiveX, Firefox, Mozilla 1.7.5 and greater, or other > browsers that support NPRuntime are required." . > > Later wht I found is at present ExternalInterface is not supporting > adobe air. > > Could anybody help me to resolve this issue. If anybody has any > idea on how to overcome this issue. Please suggest me to resolve > this issue. Thanks in Advance. >

