OR for securities sake, you can have something like PHP proxy the SWF out. This is actually a great way to do it and maintain more control over who can load the SWF.
!k _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: AIR & Modules - I've hit a wall That is correct. For security reasons, you cannot load a module SWF directly from the web into an AIR app. Some folks have worked around the issue by loading the SWF as a byteArray using URLLoader, then passing that byteArray to SWFLoader. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ed.syrett Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: AIR & Modules - I've hit a wall Could somebody please confirm this to me? Is it really true that we cannot load up swf modules from a web server into an AIR app? If so then thats a really big disappointment. I can see the need for security etc, but if an AIR app trusts a particular domain then it should be able to download a swf module and run it. I would expect some function call to enable download of swfs from a particular domain. If there are any workarounds that anyone knows about then please post here as we would really like to know. We already have a web app that makes good use of modules. The app communicates with a server running JBoss using XML, and the web app firstly downloads a list of menu items, each of which relates to a module. The user only needs to download the modules that he accesses. We were hoping to do this with AIR, so that we could have the user download the AIR container app just once, and then we could add as many modules as we liked without having to make the user re-install the whole app. BTW the XML to JBoss seems to work - we just need to get the modules working. Any further info gratefully received. Cheers, Ed.
