drag images to my desktop

[aneuryzma]

hi,

can I drag images from browser window to my desktop even if they are inside a flash animation ?

I would like to build a website in flash but keep this nice functionality you have with common html/css.

thanks

[sgartner]

It's hard and probably impossible/unreasonable because flash doesn't have any OS-specific functionality and drag and drop is done so differently from application to application, let along OS to OS.

I did find this discussion with sample code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82509/is-it-possible-to-drag-and-drop-from-to-outside-a-flash-applet-with-javascript

However, if you are creating an AIR application, it might be possible as AIR has OS-specific libraries:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/desktop/NativeDragManager.html

Here's a nice example of drag onto Flash (from HTML/JS, not OS):

http://steelcase.floorplanner.com/start

[aneuryzma]

Isn't possible to store the image in a javascript variable and then drag out using javascript ?