# Button to save an image

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-save-an-image/42115>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 5, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-save-an-image/42115 "2004-02-05T12:05:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![romanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@romanus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/romanus)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-save-an-image/42115/1 "2004-02-05T12:05:52Z")

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lo there,

how to do a button to save an image (or other file) to the disk?

any tip? 😃 any tut? :sen:

cheers

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-save-an-image/42115/2 "2004-02-05T13:43:59Z")

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maybe  
[AS]  
on (release) {  
getURL(“yourimage.jpg”);  
}  
[/AS]

but that will probably bring up the image in IE.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-save-an-image/42115/3 "2004-02-05T14:47:04Z")

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well, if u zip it… it works :-/

this is so simple task and there is no simple way (direct) to do it. so i think :evil:

cheers

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-to-save-an-image/42115/4 "2004-02-05T20:14:37Z")

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do a search, i posted a zip containing files to do that…a looong time ago… can’t be bothered to find them on my backup cd’s…