Comments on: Adobe AIR 1.5 DownloadManager API - download files from web / server to your local drive

By: elad.ny

elad.ny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:20:10 +0000

Hi Gavri, the API wasn’t built to accommodate what you are trying to do. Streaming and some of the new HTTP streaming allows you to start at a certain point.

By: Gavri

Gavri — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:54:05 +0000

Hi,

very useful info.

one question though: lets say I’m saving the bytearray of my loaded file and appending to it on each progress event - now lets say that from some reason the connection is lost.

can i start downloading the remote file from the place I stopped (passing the ByteArray current positon as an argument)?

something like URLStream.load() function with an offset arguemet

Thanks

gavri

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:25:19 +0000

I looked for something like this forever! Thanks!

By: IdeasMX

IdeasMX — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:47:42 +0000

Thanks for the code, it will be usefull for one of my projects

By: madhu

madhu — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:53:19 +0000

Thanks a million, I am working on this for a day and couldn’t solved it. You helped me a lot.

One change I did in code is in the class “ReadDirectoryHelper”
for getting file name you are splitting the path

file = fileCollection[i] as File;
fileSplit = file.nativePath.split(File.separator);
fileName = fileSplit[fileSplit.length-1] as String;

I think no need to split it as we get file name directly from the file object.
fileName = file.name

Thank you,
Madhu P

By: domain kaydi

domain kaydi — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:44:01 +0000

thank you for this article. Ive looked at the end.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:46:11 +0000

Elad,
Thanks for the utility! Is there any way to pause and restart a download? Or re-start a broken download? I am using it to download files > 5Gb.

Kyle

By: driver87

driver87 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:07:38 +0000

Thank you all very, very much! ,

By: elad.ny

elad.ny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:35:01 +0000

Hi Avi, my team and I can definitely help you with your project. Please send me an email through the site form: http://elromdesign.com/?page=contact.

By: avi

avi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:11:58 +0000

hi!!!!!!!!
Plz, can u give me the code for downloading and playing video files(.swf format and around 100 in number) in video player for flex builder3.

Also, can such application be made(in AIR and Flex builder3) for completely offline use i.e we are storing videos directly in database(no downloading from server) and retrieving and playing in video player in offline mode .