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Just in case someone faced the same problem i did. Here’s the actual code to download a file with Flex


var fileToDownload:FileReference = new FileReference();
private function downloadFile(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("file.txt");
fileToDownload.download(request, "aSpecificFilenameChosenByYou.txt");
}

It doesn’t work if your file reference object is declared as a local variable. For the non-coders, here is the negative example.

private function downloadFile(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("file.txt");
var fileToDownload:FileReference = new FileReference();
fileToDownload.download(request, "aSpecificFilenameChosenByYou.txt");
}