On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:20:11PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > > Doing so we'd let us control creation of it through the gui, so > > that we may have a "File->SaveLauncherAs". > > Great idea. I think we should also provide a way to save external > streams from gnash into local files, so that we can do "File->SaveAs".
Agreed, but designing the interface isn't that easy. The "SaveLauncherAs" has the advantage that lets you run the launcher with -v switch, grep SECURITY and thus get all URLS (loaded SWFs, XMLs, JPGs, PNGs, FLVs....). A File->SaveAs can easily save the top-level SWF, but there are a lot of cases in which that by itself won't work. For instance, it may contain some checks on the URL it is loaded from. Gnash could fake it with a launcher, but saving the SWF itself won't help by itself. > Ideally we could both offer the capability to only save streams > (e.g. producing one or more .FLV files) and/or to save the entire > flash movie and all its streams (producing a .SWF and a subdir > containing a set of .FLVs and maybe other things, like Firefox's "Save > Page As..." in the "Web Page, complete" format). I like this idea (save application as). Again, wont' be easy as it might require modifying the SWF (binary patching it) to drop any absolute url contained in it ! Still, sometimes you DO want absolute urls in it. Take my mortage analisys applet: it fetches rates from the bank site. Those rates will be updated regularly, and I want to know ! > Saving SWF's and streams would be a big feature for Gnash -- that the > Adobe plugin will never implement, because of its stance on DRM. If > we implemented this, a lot more people would switch to gnash -- or at > least make it one of the available tools that they use some of the > time. I think a simple way to this would be to improve the File->Properties menu so that for every character we add an 'URL' field, and that every URI-looking string is made clickable (click to download). --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
