Saving in Flash or Flex

By Gerben Robijn on Feb 21, 2007 in Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, General, Programs

I’m running around with following thoughts quit some time now. Why can’t adobe build in save options in flash and flex? Is it because safety issues? I don’t think that would be an issue, cause the same can be achieved with javascript, c, java, php, and the rest you can sum up. Or is it because Apollo is being released soon and Adobe is hoping in a increase in popularity because this “feature” is probably supported in Apollo? I say build it in flash and flex so we don’t have to work with annoying 3th party software. And if someone can explain it to me why it isn’t build in, I would be happy to hear it, cause I would love to understand it.


4 Comment(s)

  1. On Feb 21, 2007, Niels Bruin said:

    Couldn’t agree you more Gerben!

  2. On Feb 21, 2007, Maikel Sibbald said:

    Yeah… I agree also…instead we can save some stuff in an *.sol…yeaah not!

  3. On Feb 21, 2007, Waldo Smeets - Adobe said:

    Can you elaborate a bit more on *what* you’d like to safe and when? Would you like to save the master SWF, all assets loaded in runtime, including data, or what? And for which usecases? Does the option in Flex to Publish Source somehow meet some of these requirements?

  4. On Feb 22, 2007, Gerben Robijn said:

    No what I would like to have is the possibility of saving a file through a FileOutputStream like in Java or like in PHP:

    PLAIN TEXT
    PHP:
    1. $file_pointer = fopen('thefilename','themode');
    2. fwrite($file_pointer,'My name is John Doe');
    3. fclose($file_pointer);

    Simply for creating text files or xml files at first. But I could think of more handy things like saving an image from flash to a server or local computer.

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