Opening local files using a URLRequest

is it possible to open a file from say C drive when your flash file is in C:\somefolder?

I suppose if it's in the same folder as the requesting swf you can, but after that you're likely to run into sandbox security issues that you would have to deal with. Here's a fuller discussion of what's happening in Flash 10, which opens some possibilities:
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/20/reading-and-writing-local-files-in-flash-playe r-10/

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Reinstalled. Same behaviour. Default Browser set correctly.
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Are you sure it hasn't imported?
Check for the track names (trackname only, not Album or Artist)) and see if they have a blank Artist and Album, because WAV files have no MetaData, so are kind of stupid as far as knowing anything about the Artist, Album & track id.
You can't search by 'Untitled' either as there is literally, no name at all, but iTunes does pick up the actual physical track name in Finder and uses that. As an example, if you renamed your Aerosmith WAV file from say 'Toys In The Attic' to 'Love Song' it would import the track as 'Love Song' as that's all it can go by.
There are a few iTunes AppleScripts that let you import from a file of WAV music, by looking at the enclosing Album in the enclosing Artist as that's how most PC progs create the WAV file structure.
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Open local file using fileReference in AIR

I just started to build an AIR application and am facing a
very basic problem. I need a File->Open menu that pops up a file
open dialog and returns the location (including folder) of a file
to edit.
- I tried the fileReference.browse() but this does not seem
to provide the full path to the file
- I tried fileReferenceList.browse() but the SELECT event
does not fire on my Mac under (seem to be a bug reported last
October:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-13220)
Now, how can I achieve this in AIR? I assume opening local
file is a pretty standard operation for desktop application, any
suggestion/tip?
thanks
*P

You don't want to use FileReference in AIR for what you are
doing. Check the documentation for the mx.controls.FileSystemTree.
There are actually a handful of AIR-specific controls for accessing
the file system. There isn't a "File Open" dialog per se; you can
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controls will have the flavor of the OS (so on a Mac the controls
will behave similarly to the way a Mac accessses and browses for
files).

Unable to open local file using af:goLink and anchor link in JSF page.

Hi,
I want to open a file at a perticular location on client machine. I am using af:goLink to openg the file. But when i tried to click on the link it is not opening the file. If i give any other value like name of other site, it opens the link. It is not giving any exception also. I tried by puting notmal HTML anchor link. That is also not working. But if i put this anchor link in normal HTML page, it works.
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<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.0"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">
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File Uploader Test
<af:inputFile label="Input File" autoSubmit="true"/>
<af:spacer height="20" width="50"/>
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<af:spacer height="20" width="50"/>

</af:form>
</af:document>
</f:view>
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<html>
<body>
<form>
Please specify a file from your local machine</b>
<input name="file" type="file" onblur="document.forms[0].hello.value = document.forms[0].file.value; document.getElementById('you').innerHTML =document.forms[0].file.value; document.getElementById('you').href = 'file://'+document.forms[0].file.value;">
<br><br>
<input type="text" name="hello" value="">
<br><br>

</form>
</body>
</html>
(Note: Please remove the comments that i have added in creating anchor link. I was facing some issue in putting my code in this editor. It was creating the HTML link when i see the preview.)
I hope you will be able to reproduce my problem.
Sujay

What version of IE are you using? IIRC, IE 7 is supposed to prompt you. ("The web site is attempting to open a page in your Trusted Zone. This can let hax0rs pwnz0r you. Continue?" or something to that effect.)
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ECL Viewer - Open Local File

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Hi Tom,
unfortunately it is not possible to open the local saved file again in the ECL Viewer. This is designed that way because the
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Christoph

Opening External Files using SWF

Hi all,
Is there a way to open external files using swf? I have gone
through a number of forums and all seem to tell me to open with a
window projector. my problem is, I need to embed the swf into a
html to be viewed online... So I need to do it in swf format.
Any ideas?

When you say 'external files' I presume you mean local files
on the users hard drive.
If that's true:
When you say 'open' what do you mean? It could mean to open
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support. 3rd party tools are necessary to really add a lot of file
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files.
The filereference class in flash is primarily for
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There is, to my current knowledge, no way you can do that with
flash in a html page directly.
The only way I can think that it might be possible (untested)
would be to have a separate local MS Office (or any other host for
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How to open local file link in IE ?

I know, this question is not APEX-related per se, but I was not able to google the fix to this problem.
In my application, users can open a file open dialog and retrieve a complete file path that is later stored in the DB. Of course, Firefox's javascript does not allow this, but Adam Fisk's applet (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405630#c40) does the job.
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Also, there is a LocalLink plugin (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work) that allows to open local file links from context menu.
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Problem with Photoshop CS6. If I open a file using Camera RAW

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Sorry, we couldn't open your file using this feature. Visio Web Access is not available on this site.

Recently installed Service Pack 1 in SharePoint Server 2013 Farm, post upgrade we are experiencing issue when opening visio documents:
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Under Document library-->Library settings-->Advanced Settings
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I recommend to check the things below:
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http://tutorial.programming4.us/windows_server/microsoft-sharepoint-2013---looking-at-visio-services-(part-3)---visio-graphics-service-service-application.aspx
Best regards.
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Can I open raw files using photoshop elements

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I'm using Acrobat reader to open pdf file using a vb proceedure , how ever I can't get it to open a specific file thats in another file folder.
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