RE: [flexcoders] is there a way to open a file in flex app'

How does Flash upload files without access to the user's file system? I thought the security requirement was relaxed with the release of Flash 8. Conceptually, I would assume that if Flash can send a file to the server, it must be accessing the file system somehow. Once Flash gets the

RE: [flexcoders] is there a way to open a file in flex app'

Because of security restrictions, the Flash Player running in the browser can not access the user's file system. The only way to do this is to wrap your flex swf in something like Zinc which allows it to run as a desktop application, or of course Adobe Apollo, which is in alpha/almost-beta right