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Question About SWF Shockwave Flash and Text-Document Output

Postby FrankoSport » Mon 11 Aug, 2008 8:12 pm

Greetings ....

Are Shockwave Flash Programs (SWF file format) capable of generating output to a text or other type document file?
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Postby Antony » Mon 11 Aug, 2008 8:47 pm

I am not a Flash programmer, and my first guess is no.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Mon 11 Aug, 2008 9:10 pm

My preliminary guess would be that, as a security precaution, Flash wouldn't let you interact with files on an end user's hard drive. I seem to recall that there's an option to set a certain Flash file as "Trusted", but this requires a relative lot of user intervention.
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