Download from button press

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ok there was one about downloading a pdf, is there any way to download an avi without zipping it, from pressing a button in flash

because when i press the button it makes the movie load in IE, but i want the save button to apear instead

Thanx for any help

Ben

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from what I know, you can’t directly link like that, since the
download/save box is a component of IE. Common sense would
tell you that it should ask you every time, no matter where the
link came from, but it doesn’t.

A simple solution is to make it pop up a small html page with the
avi link. Just a suggestion…

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http://www.screenweaver.com/component.cfm?nav=1&sub=2&id=231

on this page theres an example which has a flash file linking o a download file

iv tried to install the component but its not workin

anyway, ill try your suggestion if i cant find anythin.

thanx

Ben

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Another great one by Muzak… :wink:

Muzak can be reached by FlashCoders list or FlashMacromedia Yahoo group… Just thought I’d let you know… =)

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you can use server side scripting to force a download… but why cant you zip it?

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cos i dont wanna zip it, hehe

i just want people to be able to download my avi files. and then be able to play em

what sort of serverside scripting is there? can it be used in flash?

another thing i thought of, can u dynamicly load a html file into flash? cos then i could just mask over it and then the buttons (thumbnails) will be html, so u would right click and press ‘save target as’

Catcha

Ben…

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*Originally posted by Spark *
**another thing i thought of, can u dynamicly load a html file into flash? cos then i could just mask over it and then the buttons (thumbnails) will be html, so u would right click and press ‘save target as’
**

you can certainly embed html, however, it’s still going to be inside flash, and you’d be clicking inside a swf… and the swf menu is always the same.