From: Ganesh Gunasegaran <ganesh.gunasegaran@...>
Date: 2007-04-26T06:48:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Watir and Ruby2Exe together

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Hi Jim,

On 25-Apr-07, at 1:35 PM, Jim Clark wrote:

> The specification targets IE6, IE7 and Firefox running on XP and  
> Vista. The catch is that none of these browsers allows files to be  
> written to disk for security reasons regardless if Java applets,  
> JavaScript, ECMAScript, etc. are used. So the problem is once the  
> form is submitted and the Flash Action Script has the output XML  
> ready, how to circumvent security and get the XML file written to  
> preferably the same drive and directory the application was  
> launched from.

Why not use Adobe apollo (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ 
Apollo)? You can easily bundle a flash file to apollo archive/ 
standalone and you get a standalone application. Apollo has webkit  
inbuilt and doesn't need a particular browser to be installed in the  
client machine. Your application might even work in Mac :D

Apollo can easily talk with the local filesystem.
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ 
Apollo:Articles:Apollo_Local_File_System

Cheers,
Ganesh Gunasegaran.


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