I never worked with cold fusion ... however your code on the server writes somewhere the file on the disk and names it somehow. The method that does that could return the file name in case of a successful save and you can get it back into flex on the complete event.
HTH, Claudiu ________________________________ From: ZIONIST <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 3:10:33 PM Subject: [flexcoders] how to get the name of a video file after upload hi guys, i have built a video uploader in flex with a coldfusion backend. what i do is allow the user to upload a video file (using cffile) and use ffmpeg to convert the file into .flv format(this is because flex videoplayer only plays .flv files) which is then stored(file. flv) on the server. this all works perfectly, but i want to get the name of the flv file on the server into the textinput and store it in the database. how do i do that? here is the code, in this case the textinput is filled with the original file name(something like file.mov or file.mp4 etc and i want to fill it with the name of the converted file eg file.flv) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf- 8"?> <mx:FormItem xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe. com/2006/ mxml" creationComplete= "init()"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.managers. PopUpManager; import components.progress _popup; //////////video upload //////////// ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// /// private const FILE_UPLOAD_ URL:String = "cfcs/vidUpload. cfm"; private var fileRef:FileReferen ce; private var progress_win: progress_ popup; private function init():void { fileRef = new FileReference( ); fileRef.addEventLis tener(Event. SELECT, fileRef_select) ; fileRef.addEventLis tener(Event. OPEN, openHandler) ; fileRef.addEventLis tener(ProgressEv ent.PROGRESS, progressHandler) ; fileRef.addEventLis tener(Event. COMPLETE, fileRef_complete) ; } private function browseAndUpload( ):void { //var fileFilter:FileFilt er = new FileFilter(" Files", "*.pdf;*.doc; *.docx"); fileRef.browse( ); message.text = ""; } private function fileRef_select( event:Event) :void { try { fileRef.upload( new URLRequest(FILE_ UPLOAD_URL) ); } catch (err:Error) { message.text = "ERROR: zero-byte file"; } vid.text = event.currentTarget .name; createdprogressPopu p(); } private function fileRef_complete( event:Event) :void { message.text += " (complete)"; removeMe(); } private function createdprogressPopu p():void{ progress_win= progress_ popup(PopUpManag er.createPopUp( this,progress_ popup,true) ); } private function removeMe():void { PopUpManager. removePopUp( progress_ win); } private function progressHandler( event:ProgressEv ent):void{ progress_win. uploadProgress. setProgress( event.bytesLoade d, event.bytesTotal) ; } private function openHandler( event:Event) :void { progress_win. uploadProgress. label = "Uploading %3%% of image file."; } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:HBox width="240"> <mx:TextInput width="155" id="vid"/> <mx:Button label="Browse" click="browseAndUpl oad();"/> </mx:HBox> <mx:Label id="message" /> </mx:FormItem>
