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Uploading and downloading files with Flash 8
One of the great new features of Flash is its ability to let you work with file uploads and downloads. However, let me say right at the beginning of this article that Flash 8 CAN’T upload files on its own - it needs some help from the server. The topic of this article is how we can use Flash to communicate the information about uploaded and downloaded files with the server.
On HTML pages, one of the form controls that is included is an input control with a type of File.
<input type="file" />
This creates a field with a Browse button that looks something like the image shown below.
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This article is part of the new interactive e-book; Out of my mind: Flash 8 PowerSas Jacobs
Hello. I'm the Principal of Anything Is Possible, an Australian web development business specialising in web applications development and training. I'm interested in using Flash with dynamic content and I've presented at a number of International conferences on topics relating to applications development, XML and scripting components. I have recently released my second print book Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax to match the first one - Foundation XML for Flash. I have a business web site
and a personal web site.