Not exactly true. Flex applications can store data locally on a domain basis using LocalShared Objects. You can think about these as advanced object structured cookies but in the end they do write data to the local file system although highly abstracted. It is a way to persist data locally for offline use cases and is available in FP6 or higher.
I have used them to store fairly large amounts of data 100K or less. Storage of data more than 100K requires user dialog permission. Reading and Writing of file directly does require Apollo. Regards, Ted Patrick Flex Technical Evangelist Adobe Systems http://www.onflex.org <http://www.onflex.org> http://www.linkedin.com/in/tedpatrick <http://www.linkedin.com/in/tedpatrick> ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of carltondickson Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:25 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Can flex write to local file system Hi guys, I under stand Flex is for RIA but if it's just an embedded swf file within HTML can it not just be used for desktop apps. All I would like to do is write an XML file (based on the work the user has done via my flex app) to a folder on the file system, is this possible? Is it possible for Flex to write to the local file system or is this something that Apollo will take care off. Also do any users have any idea on how long it will be before we can expect the first release of Apollo (Not including the current alpha one) Thanks for reading, C
