Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed

Chapter 7. Working with Files and Directories

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Determining File or Directory Paths

• Opening and Reading a File

• Creating and Writing a File

• Working with Directories

With the File application programming interface (API), your Adobe^® AIR™ applications can take advantage of an unprecedented level of access to the user’s local file system. You can now access low-level functionality of working with files and directories through an ActionScript API.

Our main focus in this chapter is on the flash.filesystem.* package. See Table 7.1.

Table 7.1. ActionScript Classes Introduced

Class	Package	Description
File	flash.filesystem	An object that represents a path to a file or directory. May be a reference to an existing file or directory, or one that does not ...