For whatever reason, setting content-disposition stuff didn't work for
me and was running out of time. What I ended up doing was this,
- User clicks a button to generate the file on the Java side and save
it to the server.
- In Flex, when server returns the usual XML response saying all is
OK, I dynamically add a button to the app to handle the download using
a FileReference object.
- On successful download (Event.COMPLETE), I delete the button from
the app.
- Alex
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Mika Kiljunen <mkintens...@...> wrote:
>
> Yep I have the same problem and get the same error. But funny
enough, my app
> works perfectly with Flash Player 9, but fails with Flash Player 10
throwing
> "Error: Error #2176: Certain actions, such as those that display a
pop-up
> window, may only be invoked upon user interaction, for example by a
mouse
> click or button press."
>
> -Mika
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:51 PM, valdhor <valdhorli...@...>wrote:
>
> > Once you create the zip file you need to return the correct
headers to
> > the browser so that the browser will pop up the dialog box asking the
> > user what to do.
> >
> > I don't use Java - I use PHP. When the user clicks a button in Flex I
> > create a new URLRequest and then navigateToURL. The PHP script creates
> > the file and when done sends the following headers:
> >
> > Header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
> > Header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=zipTest.zip");
> >
> > The script then streams the file to the browser. The headers sent back
> > to the browser cause the browser to pop up the save file window just
> > as if the user clicked a file link on an HTML page.
> >
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "oneworld95" <oneworld95@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've run into an interesting situation with Flex: I've got a Java
> > > servlet that will generate a Zip file when the user clicks a
button in
> > > Flex. But the file download dialog after the server action requires
> > > the user to click a button. It throws this error:
> > >
> > > Error: Error #2176: Certain actions, such as those that display a
> > > pop-up window, may only be invoked upon user interaction, for
example
> > > by a mouse click or button press.
> > >
> > > So how do you handle these situations? After the server responds
> > > successfully, do you display a second button to do the actual Flex
> > > file download?
> > >
> > > - Alex
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
