Using the ProgressBar with a file download in Flex
February 13, 2009
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Author: Arjan (34 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
So sometimes you’ll have time consuming procedures in your Flex application. Flex provides a nice moving clock thingy to let the user know that it’s doing something, but it doesn’t give the user any information about the progress.
Fortunately, Adobe provided the ProgressBar with Flex. To see how you can use the progressbar in combination with a file download from the server, see the following example.

