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I need to create an app that runs in Flash Projector on a Mac. This app plays flv files on a timed schedule. That part is no problem. What I would like to do is to have the Flash app check online for updated versions of the videos and download them locally, replacing the existing ones. How can I accomplish this task? Also, are there permissions that must be set so that this process can happen without user intervention?
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I need to create an app that runs in Flash Projector on a Mac. This app plays flv files on a timed schedule. That part is no problem. What I would like to do is to have the Flash app check online for updated versions of the videos and download them locally, replacing the existing ones. How can I accomplish this task? Also, are there permissions that must be set so that this process can happen without user intervention?

Downloading files to local hard drive in Flash/Actionscript

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a cross-platform multimedia and software platform used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages and desktop and mobile applications and games. Flash displays text, vector and raster graphics to provide animations, video games and applications. It allows streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input. The ActionScript programming language allows creation of interactive animations, video games, web applications, desktop applications and mobile applications.

Adobe Flash

Apache Flex is a highly productive, open source application framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and television). It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns suitable for developers from many backgrounds. Flex applications can be deployed to the Adobe Player in the browser, Adobe AIR on desktop and mobile devices or to native Android, iOS, Windows or Mac applications.