Comments on: Uploading Files in Flash 8

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:49:48 +0000

Hi Great code and I use it on my site. I am having problems with MACS though. No one with a MAC can upload an image. Everything works up until the progress bar. This does not get displayed and nothing else happens. Any ideas?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:03:59 +0000

Thanks for this source code. Very well documented and very clean.

I am having one issue with it and it appears to be Mac oriented only. When I click ‘browse’, all the files are grey in my browse window on the Mac. I’ve tested this on Windows XP and it works fine. So I’m fairly certain this is a Mac issue only. Unfortunately, we’re an all Mac office and I need to be able to use this here.

I’ve tried eliminating the macfile information from the file type array, even tried making the file extentions be *.*, but I can’t seem to select a file to upload. I even went so far as to take out the filetype from the () for the file browse, but no luck.

Any ideas on how to get around this?

By: iCeR

iCeR — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:55:51 +0000

For some reason i can’t see the preview in flash of the uploaded image?? help please?

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:10:04 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to upload and image, drag animated symbols on top of the image and then save the composition as either a .swf file or a .fla?

By: Garfield

Garfield — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:40:00 +0000

I am trying to find a solution that utilizes the browse function and loadmovie function. Basically browse your local machine for an image file, once located and selected, load that image file into your flash. Is this possible? I was able to make it work when the file selected resides in the same folder as flash file but when the flash file does not reside in the same folder as the image, then i get an error. It there a way of copying the path to that image?

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:13:26 +0000

THis would be good if I knew the PHP code to be used. Rather useless without. Any idea at all

By: torwalker

torwalker — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:24:47 +0000

Is there a fix for the flash filereference problem noted above? If I add
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
to my htaccess file, i get an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error so that’s not an option for me.
Thanks.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:32:34 +0000

@dan

You can save the modified image, but FileReference only works with files that the user selects to upload, or a file that you want the user to download.

To save a modified image or any other BitmapData object, you would need to serialize that BitmapData object, and send it to the server somehow, through a series of calls to a server-side script.

More info on that can be found here: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000572.php

When I was at mediaRAIN, we did something similar to save images the user had been working on, and it worked pretty well. You definitely need to be careful though so that you don’t hang the Flash Player in the user’s browser, since you’ll have to loop through every pixel in an image.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:08:37 +0000

Thanks for the info. Another question… if I do use this process to upload and then download and then modify the image (using BitmapData?) is it possible to upload the modified image? I image I would have to use FileReference to do the upload so does it have to open a local file?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:52:02 +0000

@dan

That’s not possible. While Flash 8 will allow you to browse the local file system in order to find a file to upload, Flash will not allow you to do anything with that file, other than upload it. The only way for Flash to interact with that file is after you have uploaded it to your server, then loaded it back into Flash.