Downloading a file

To Use FileReference you will have to publish to AIR

(don`t assume any user will install AIR only to download a text file).

The default behaviour of any browser I know of is to download a file it can`t display.

So If you would simply zip that text file on the server, you wouldn`t need FileReference and AIR at all.

Try this one:

import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.FileReference;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.FileFilter;

info_form.download_file.buttonMode = true;
info_form.download_file.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);

var pdf:FileReference;

function mouseDownHandler(event:MouseEvent)
{
     pdf = new FileReference();
     configureListeners(pdf);
     pdf.download(new URLRequest("http://www.somesite.co.uk/media/myFile.txt"), "myFile.txt");
}

function configureListeners(dispatcher:IEventDispatcher):void
{
     dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
     dispatcher.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
     dispatcher.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler);
}

function completeHandler(event:Event):void
{
     trace("completeHandler: " + event);
}

function ioErrorHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void
{
     trace("ioErrorHandler: " + event);
}

function securityErrorHandler(event:SecurityErrorEvent):void
{
     trace("securityErrorHandler: " + event);
}

if you got any errors please reply...

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/FileReference.html#download()