[flexcoders] ftp in flex/as3

2008-09-04 Thread nathan king
OK, I hope I am not digging up the dead here, but we are in an effort to upload large files (500-1024mb) to a server. We have discovered an issue where on the Mac, flash loads the entire file into RAM before uploading causing serious issues in low RAM environments. see this post: http://tech.grou

[flexcoders] Re: large file upload

2008-09-03 Thread nathan king
UPDATE - after testing, it seems this is a flash /mac issue. I have tested on one PC with no issues. Flex/AS3 seems to post normally just as a HTML form would do. Can anyone else confirm this issue? -Nathan --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "nathan king" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

[flexcoders] Re: Want to build a SWF on the fly when someone requests it

2008-09-03 Thread nathan king
I too am considering the automagic generation of a swf using flex/air. I am toying with the idea of using PHP on the server side (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.swf.php) to generate the swf and allow the user to download it. I am pretty sure this is something that FLEX can not do on it's own, bu

[flexcoders] large file upload

2008-09-03 Thread nathan king
I have posted a response to this thread (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/60797) and would like to re-ask the question and I am not sure a complete answer was found. first off I understand that Adobe only supports uploads up to 100mb in size, I am attempting to push that 10x f

[flexcoders] Re: FileReference Upload Chunk The File into smaller chunks

2008-09-02 Thread nathan king
Jason, I am looking for a solution to similar issues. Our company is using flex for a multiple file upload - however we deal with extremely large files (up to 1gb) and the upload method loads the entire file into memory before starting the upload. Since this is the case we are experiencing large