No you can¹t do this with Flash/Flex, the current model will not allow you to preprocess the images locally before uploading. The closest you will get is to browse the hard drive for images and then upload, then you¹ll have to download again to process, then send the binary back up. I actually did a prototype of this concept a couple months ago, it was too awkward, but the cleint didn¹t want to install a desktop app. In the past I¹ve created a Director exe that I embed my Flash into, Director does all the heavy lifting of processing images and then it FTPs the processed images to the server. Flash was used for the interface.
I¹m waiting for Apollo so I can rewrite this application all in Flex and deliver it with Apollo. Good luck, Mike Weiland ----------------- Mike Weiland Aspen Tree Media (877)659-1652 | FAX: (512)828-7105 http://www.AspenTreeMedia.com http://www.CertificateCreator.com - Create & Print Awards and Certificates On 1/9/07 4:12 PM, "sdelapdmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a client that needs a small image tagging application. I'm evaluating > Flex for the task > and have a quick question. First the use case. > > 1. Load Application in Browser > 2. Click "browse" and select a number of images off the local disk. > 3. Resize and tag these images on the client. > 4. Upload via a webservice API to server. > > So in a nutshell I want to preprocess the images on the client before upload. > Does the Flash > 9 security model allow applications to browse and load files from the disk? I > only need read > access to the local disk. I did a few Google searches and founds a bunch of > stuff about policy > files. Not exactly helpful. Is there some way to sign the application to > make this possible? > Just accessing the disk sandbox will not be sufficient for this use case. The > files could be > anywhere. Thanks in advance. > > >
