Import txt into TextField

[stephen]

I want to have two buttons, one that opens a file open dialog box that allows the user to choose a txt file and it then loads it into the textfield in the flash movie.  And One other button that allows the user to save the contents of the textfield to a txt file.  Is this possible?

[Jorge Solis]

Sure is possible, but Flash can't do it by itself, need to use some backend script. Which language you use/support your server?

Jorge

[JesseSanford]

The server is running php and mysql on apache... but what i need to know is if you can get a file open dialog box to popup via some actionscript and then once a file is selected to pass that files contents into the flash movie. Preferably without having to upload the file to the server first. I am guessing that getting access to the local hd from a non standalone swf file has some security issues and from what I can tell from my research it is only possible after publishing the swf to an .exe

-Stephen and Jesse

[Jorge Solis]

The more accurate way of uploading a file from Flash is using an HTML pop-up. Anyway, using a non cross-platform code (only IE) you can simulate file uploading using JavaScript, see http://www.flash-db.com/Board/index.php?board=18;action=display;threadid=3196

I don't see an easy task to load a file and display as text in a Flash Movie for a simply reason: the user can load any kind of file (nor only txt files, even if you try to validate) and if it's a txt file, with any king of format. Since Flash need a special format to read variables, you need to parse the file to output something like:

myText= .... here all the text in the file ...

Also parsing doble quotes and &

Jorge