not giving access to your local file system from a web app is a deliberate and basic security constraint applied by the player, otherwise tehre's nothing stopping malicious activity via the web.
Depending on what you are trying to do you can look here at shared objects... http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001962.html or maybe at Air of you really need a desktop application. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "cksachdev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > Is it possible to access the Client Machine resources like file from > the browser. I hosted my swf file on tomcat then using the ip address > I try to load an external text file, it doesn't seems to work. But > when I run it on my local machine (without tomcat) I am able to access > and read the contents of the file. The error I get is this > SecurityError: Error #2148: SWF file > http://192.168.1.129:1002/bin/LoadExternal.swf cannot access local > resource file:///C:/external.txt. Only local-with-filesystem and > trusted local SWF files may access local resources. > > Is it possible to read a file content from the local machine ? > > > Any suggestions >
