# Download from button press **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367 "2003-03-24T06:04:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Spark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Spark)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/1 "2003-03-24T06:04:13Z")
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 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/2 "2003-03-24T06:36:46Z")
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… ---
**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:** [March 24, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/3 "2003-03-24T06:49:54Z")
[http://www.screenweaver.com/component.cfm?nav=1&sub=2&id=231](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 ---
**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:** [March 24, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/4 "2003-03-24T11:53:13Z")
Another great one by Muzak… 😉 Muzak can be reached by FlashCoders list or FlashMacromedia Yahoo group… Just thought I’d let you know… =) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/5 "2003-03-24T14:44:27Z")
you can use server side scripting to force a download… but why cant you zip it? ---
**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:** [March 25, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/6 "2003-03-25T14:57:07Z")
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… http:\[www.fluidzone.com/~wetvidz](http://www.fluidzone.com/~wetvidz) ---
**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:** [March 25, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-from-button-press/16367/7 "2003-03-25T16:08:25Z")
> \*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.