Previewing an image before uploading it using the FileReference class in Flash Player 10

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2008 · 64 Comments

The following example shows how you can browse for an image file from your local file system and preview the image before uploading it to a remote webserver by using the FileReference class’s new load() method in Flash Player 10. Once the user has browsed and selected an image from their local machine, you can [...]

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Saving files locally using the FileReference class’s save() method in Flash Player 10

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2008 · 37 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the FileReference class’s new save() method in Flash Player 10 to save text, XML, and image files to a user’s hard drive.

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Creating a FileReference object using MXML in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can define a FileReference object in MXML by defining a custom namespace for the flash.net package.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Using for the FileReference class’s uploadCompleteData event to capture data from a server-side script

By Peter deHaan On October 30, 2007 · 11 Comments

The previous example, “Using the URLVariables and FileReference classes to pass data from Flex to a server-side script”, showed how you could use the upload() method in the FileReference class along with the URLRequest and URLVariables classes to send data from your Flex application to a server-side script. Well, what happens if you want [...]

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Using the URLVariables and FileReference classes to pass data from Flex to a server-side script

By Peter deHaan On October 30, 2007 · 14 Comments

We’ve already seen examples of using Flex to upload and download files (see “Uploading files in Flex using the FileReference class” and “Downloading files in Flex using the FileReference class”), but I’ve seen a lot of bugs/questions centering around the FileReference class lately so thought I’d try and do another example or two.

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Uploading files in Flex using the FileReference class

By Peter deHaan On September 21, 2007 · 145 Comments

In an earlier example we looked at “Downloading files in Flex using the FileReference class“, but It looks like we haven’t ever looked at file uploads.
The following example shows how you can use the FileReference class’s browse() method to allow users to select and upload a single file to a Web server.

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Downloading files in Flex using the FileReference class

By Peter deHaan On July 28, 2007 · 57 Comments

OK, enough embedding examples, lets take a look at downloading files using Flash Player’s FileReference class (flash.net.FileReference). This example demonstrates a basic usage of the FileReference class within Flex, allowing users to download a file from the server. This example also shows how you can use data tips in the DataGrid control by setting the [...]

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