[Q] How to Save Text File in Flash???

[CyanBlue]

I just made a quick list of the methods on how you can create text file from Flash...

See if you can think of any other way of doing it, please add...
If you have good URL that explains any or all of the methods that I have listed, please add...
If you can provide any good information, please add...
If you see anything wrong, please correct me...

If you have question on this subject, please do not reply... Create you own thread...

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How to Save Text File in Flash

SWF on Online

• Save Locally in the User's hard drive - Shared Object
• Save Remotely in the Server space - Server side script required

SWF on Offline

• Save Locally in the User's hard drive FMX - Shared Object
• Save Locally in the User's hard drive F5 - FSCommand Save
• Save Remotely in the Server space - Server side script required

Flash Native Projector

• Save Locally in the User's hard drive FMX - Shared Object
• Save Locally in the User's hard drive F5 - FSCommand Save
• Save Remotely in the Server space - Server side script required

Third Party Projector

• Save Locally in the User's hard drive FMX - Shared Object & Most of the tools normally provide you the solution
• Save Locally in the User's hard drive F5 - FSCommand Save
• Save Remotely in the Server space - Server side script required & Some tools provides you the solution

[vinayakk]

Hello,

Message is too old to reply... but would definately help others.. please download the attached zip. It has a readme file along with it which would make clrear how to save text locally using Flash. Please be clear that flash on its alone does not has the capability to do this.. you need to use some
3rd party script in between to achieve this. I have used JavaScript.

Njoy!

Vinayak Kadam

[dhil dhil senthil]

Originally Posted by vinayakk

Hello,

Message is too old to reply... but would definately help others.. please download the attached zip. It has a readme file along with it which would make clrear how to save text locally using Flash. Please be clear that flash on its alone does not has the capability to do this.. you need to use some
3rd party script in between to achieve this. I have used JavaScript.

Njoy!

Vinayak Kadam

Hi vinay , thanks it helped me a lot...

[vishnubhatla]

To do this First Create a button in Flash and name as "saveFileBut", and create input text filed and name as "myText" and copy and paste following code in first frame.


var saveFile:FileReference = new FileReference();
saveFileBut.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, saveMyFile);

function saveMyFile(e:MouseEvent): void {
saveFile.save(myTex.text);
}


Thanks,
K Swamy Vishnubhatla.

[Beezle-Bug]

Hi,
your file is exactly what I need. unfortunately I don't get it working :-/ I already managed to overcome the flash security warning, but it doesn't write to file, yet. If I open the shell.swf outside a browser it opens a new browser tab called javascript:WriteToFile('test%20text') but then nothing else happens. any ideas? i really need to write a log file from as2...

[judthryn]

The code bellow saves the text in tMessage to the users computer. The code opens a dialog box that lets the user save the file to the local file system.

var tFR:FileReference = new FileReference();
var tMessage:String = 'Hello World';
tFR.save(tMessage, '.txt');

That is actually all the code you need. But lets explain what you can do with it. The class FileReference has a method called save with the following defenition.

public function save(data:*, defaultFileName:String = null):void

[anumber]

Originally Posted by judthryn

The code bellow saves the text in tMessage to the users computer. The code opens a dialog box that lets the user save the file to the local file system.

var tFR:FileReference = new FileReference();
var tMessage:String = 'Hello World';
tFR.save(tMessage, '.txt');

That is actually all the code you need. But lets explain what you can do with it. The class FileReference has a method called save with the following defenition.

public function save(data:*, defaultFileName:String = null):void

It worked for me but it saves it as a file.

Questions:

Is there a way i can have is save with a .uc extension?
Is there a way i can have it save over a previous version without asking the user for the file name and the "Do you want to replace question"?

[frad]

To save text file in the flash you can take help from the following code.The code bellow saves the text in tMessage to the users computer. The code opens a dialog box that lets the user save the file to the local file system.
var tFR:FileReference = new FileReference();
var tMessage:String = 'Hello World';
tFR.save(tMessage, '.txt');

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