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FileReference.browse() Bit Me on the Ass Today

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Flash Player 10 changed the security settings on the FileReference.browse() method. I remember reading about that, and yet I let an app slip through without being updated and guess what happened?
Correct, when I expected the user to get the file dialog, the application just sat there.
So, for those of you who have no idea [...]

FileReference.save() in Flash Player 10

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

One of the cool new features of Flash Player 10 is the FileReference.save() method which allows the Flash Player to write to the local file system as long as the save request is requested by the user. This means that upon calling FileReference.save() the default file system dialog will open.

The FileReference.save() method has 2 [...]

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