Excel's native format is not readable by flex. Save the Excel workbook as XML and then you could load it using HTTPService.
Normally you cannot access anything on the local client. Since you say you have used HTTPService to do this, I will assume you are using one of the workarounds. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of arpan srivastava Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:07 AM To: Flex Coders Subject: [flexcoders] how can i read an excel file from my local system? Hi All, how can i read an excel file from my local system in my flex application. I have all the data in an excel file which i need to read and draw graphs? I have used HTTPService to read text files, but this doesn't work with excel files? Thanks arpan ________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48252/*http:/mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/ones earch?refer=1ONXIC> , not web links.
