Controlling the computers files

[gheckman]

first off, this is going to be a desktop application, not intended for the web. Ok, with that said, I need to be able to copy a file from one place in their comptuer and paste it on their desktop. Basically an application that spits out swf's. It's a long story.

Any help is appreciated.

[lostinbeta]

As for copying files from one place and pasting them in another, I know you can't do that with Flash (alone at least), if it is possible you will need to combine it with something like C, C++, or C# (etc, etc)

And for an application that spits out swf's, there are only 2 method to do this that I know of.

1) The obvious one, publish out of Flash

2) Dynamically create the swf file using Ming ( http://ming.sourceforge.net/ )


This is about as far as I can take you because I know you can't do it in Flash, and I have no clue how to do it outside of Flash.