Re: [Flashcoders] File access

Hi, Don't think you could do this in Flash without loading the whole image file, even if it did have a thumbnail - not sure if this is a feature of the JPEG / PNG spec or not? If you are loading images from the server, you could run a script that generates thumbnails on the fly,

Re: [Flashcoders] File access

Thanks Glen, I will look that up. I kind of figured I would need some kind of script help in the process, but was just wondering if Flash had the capabilities. Like when your in the open file dialog window. The thumbnail you see. Retrieving that somehow in flash. No SystemCapabilities

Re: [Flashcoders] File access

Hi, The open-file dialog is an OS thing - the thumbs come from the OS rather than the image. PSD's are an exception - the thumbnail appears in the Adobe style dialogue for these... I am guessing AS3 + AIR may allow a bit more flexibility with opening and accessing file data in the

Re: [Flashcoders] File access

Hi Karl, I think Adobe has their own project of getting meta data out of file, especially for their 'own' file formats, i'm guessing PSD aswell I have not looked in to this but maybe it can help you; its called XMP. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/xmplibrary/