AIR Drag/Drop && File System Access

I’ve been exploring the possibilities of the flash.filesystem package available when developing for Adobe AIR and thought I might start posting some simple examples. Below is a link to the source code for a Flex project that demonstrates both dragging files into an application and fetching information about their location on the filesystem, name, creation date, modification date, ect…..

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Posted at 09/28/08 7:49 | no comments | Filed Under: AS3, ActionScript 3, Flex

Shared Object Client so.client[”methodAlias”] = someFunc;

I started working with the flash.net.SharedObject about 4 months ago while building a multi-display installation. Using the open source Red5 server I was able to synchronize the playback of multiple swfs running on multiple computers. The set up was quite simple…. One computer acted as the hub and the other three ran as satellites. I used the Red5 server as a one-way communication channel by setting properties on the SharedObject.data object and listening for

Posted at 07/02/08 6:25 | 2 comments | Filed Under: ActionScript 3, Flash, Recent Projects