Saving files from Flash to a user's PC

[Greenman]

Most of the stuff I make with Flash are small applications for education - in particular for Interactive Whiteboards which are becoming very popular in the UK. Teachers download an .exe and run it on their own computer.

What I would like to know is - is there a way can I save a text file to the user's computer?

e.g. they may want to run a set-up utility within the program and then save the settings so that they can reload them the next time they run the program.

[Kraken]

You can look into 3rd-party projector tools like Northcode's SWF Studio or MultiDMedia's Zinc, but they are Windows only. Alternatively, if you just want to store settings and config info (i.e. not very large) you can use sharedObjects to store your data and retrieve them. Search this forum for sharedObject and/or look them up in the dictionary for more info.

[Slowburn]

Addition:

Zinc does support Mac OSX projectors

[Kraken]

to a certain extent...but very true if you're just saving a file. Good point, slowburn.