Is it possible to select a file path from a swf-file? It would have to work the same way the <input type = file > tag works in HTML. You click on a "select file"-button in a swf and a dialog-window pops up. After you select a file, the file-path gets passed on to a cgi (in order to upload a jpg for example to the server).
JavaScript, cgi and whatever needed is allowed - but I don't want a seperate HTML-window to have to pop up with a <form>-tag, "select file" and "submit"-button. The user-interface is flash!
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I don't think you are ever going to get an answer on this topic.. People has asked similar question and ended up with the simple answer that it is possible, but the user have to do something to get it to work.. and I don't think there are many users that wants to lower their security settings to use your flash..
To upload the file you have to use activex and that's microsoft explorer only(there are plugins to other browsers, but I have not checked them out).
One way to do this is to call an ASP script which gets all the files on the hard drive. Actually if you use a VBScript it will run on the client side, therefore allowing the user to browse HIS files, not the server files...
However you would have to call the script every time the user changes directories and that kind of stuff. It might not be that bad but there's a lot of programming involved and it might just be easier to use HTML and make it look nice with CSS.
There is no built-in function for this, if that's what you're looking for. You'd have to do a lot of scripting.
eeh supermario, the reason for me to say we needed an activex is that the 99grad said that he was going to use flash to upload the file.. and the only way to get that is to use a client side script to call the browse for file dialog. and when the file is selected we need to simulate the submit button.. but explorer does not allow this.. so therefor we need to get the filepath using the input field and client script and use an activex to upload the file.. but this requires extra security access.
offcource he needs a serverside script to handel the incomming files..
just try it yourself.. make the code that browses the clients hd using filesytem object..and try it on you computer.. it will look fine..
but once you upload it to the server and try to access it from the web it won't run unless you sett your browser to run unsecure activex..
filesystemobject is an activex you know!
If you want to upload you can call javascript to open a new window with an file upload menu inside.this is the
best way to do this.
to open a new window using javascript, paste this javascript code in the html page->
<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function newWindow(file,window) {
msgWindow=open(file,window
if (msgWindow.opener == null) msgWindow.opener = self;
}
//--></script>
then from flash you can setup an button ->
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:newWind
}
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by: thor918Posted on 2002-05-27 at 04:40:06ID: 7036906
Hi 99grad, What you are asking of are possible only if you are going to use the project on your own computer. or a computer on the internett with low security settings.. (Internet explorer)