I am coding an AIR application.
I've got directly a path of a swf file (because it was stored in a xml file).
Do yo know if it is possible to get the ByteArray from this file ?
I know that FileReference do that very well, but this class need a select event. But it isn't my case because I've allready got my path.
Thanks a lot for your answers !
In AIR, you can read/write files directly using flash.filesystem.File and flash.filesystem.FileStream.
See, for example, this article.
however you can load it with URLStream and get a ByteArray with URLStream.readBytes()
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I have a problematic situation that I wish to expose you because it contains some opposites constraints. Maybe someone will have an idea on how to unlock my problem.
I'm going to make a mobile application with ActionScript 3 and Air for iOS and Android. This application has to download zip file which it uses to display text, bitmap and sound.
This last one is the problem.
After some research, one of the best way I found to check a zip file is FZip, but it allows us to get data from zip on a ByteArray form. And a Sound can't be converted from ByteArray. ( That's what a lots of results about it appear to say. )
One of the solution proposed is to put the ByteArray of a sound and put it in a SWF. Then take the SWF from the zip to get the Sound.
I can't do that because this zip will be uploaded from a admin interface used by anybody. I can't force them to use Flash.
I have few potential direction where I ask for your advices :
• Use Code or Native Extension ( iOS and Android ) to check a zip without files read in ByteArray
• Convert a ByteArray into Sound without have to pass it in a SWF
• Dynamicly create a SWF with the ByteArray of a Sound
• In the last possibility, another way to drag and download few files together which can be consulted in another format than ByteArray ( Like a iOS Bundle but with android too )
Thanks a lot to help me,
You can simply write the ByteArray on a local mp3 (or mp4) file and then play it, to write a ByteArray to file see documentation here.
I have a swf file (game file) which reads the content of external text file which I have created. This swf file will not be used in any browser. It's for windows only. I was wondering if I can delete or update that text file after I read it's content without using air.
Your question isn't very clear, I'm not sure what exactly you wanted to know. But if I understood you correctly:
You cannot delete files from the filesystem in the through Flash Player, but you can however delete it from SWF file's memory.
Deleting from the file system (basically like putting into trash) is something that only AIR can help you with.
Deleting from memory would mean to remove all the listeners from URLLoader or Loader object instance and setting it to null.
You cannot write the file with Flash player to edit it's content (update), but you can load it again and check if anything changed in that file's content that also would be considered as updating.
Hope that answers your question.
you cant do that without air. but you can use an external application using fscommand().
or you can use Multimedia Zinc
I want to know how to load external class files(.as files) in actionscript but don't have to know the class file's name. Think of it like loading mods in minecraft with forge mod loader, it doesn't know the main class of the mod's file name, yet it successfully loads the mod. I want to know if something like this is possible in actionscript 3.0 because I feel like making a tower defense game that isn't like the others out there but have it so it can be modded and have mods loaded but of course I have to load the class file without knowing the class file's name.
Note: I don't got access to Adobe Air so I can't use anything that requires Adobe Air.
You want to load a particular .as file AFTER or BEFORE compilation? After the compilation it is hardly possible - the file would not be compiled and therefore it would be useless. Why don't you use a swf or some kind of XML/JSON with settings in that case? Before the compilation you would still need to identify it by it's package name/name.
Basically, you want a plugin management system.
In AS3, it is not possible to "load" a .as file on execution, because it is a (uncompiled) source file. But, it is possible to load another swf and to use the classes within it.
Your process should probably be something like this :
Get a list of the plugins/addons. If you were using AIR, it would have been possible by browsing the content of a folder. Since you're not, you'll probably need to use a listing file (basically, a file that say "Here's the list&path of the plugins you need to load".
Load each swf file
(possibly) call a initialization method for each plugin.
You may wish to look into the way OSMF manages plugins, for example : http://osmf.org/dev/osmf/OtherPDFs/osmf_plugin_dev_guide.pdf
Is there any method in as3 that flash can write file's last modified date.
Its stand alone flash application which had external swf loading. I want to check the last modified date of the swf during the loading.
please suggest any possible methods.
Thanks.
In AIR, there is File class with modificationDate property. But in plain AS3, there's no file concept at all. If you loading swf with Loader, you only get data, but not the attributes of file (and file might not exist at all if loading something by URL.)
How read only part of local file? So that not to load the whole file into memory.
If you are using AIR you can use the readBytes() method of the FileStream API to specify an offset of the file where you want to start reading.
For a SWF that is running in the browser, the only method in the Flash Player 10 is the load() method of the FileReference class and that one doesn't allow you to specify an offset.