Re: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you for your answers. Unfortunately I don't know AIR or Zinc. I looked for a way to publish this application as swf file and then convert it to exe. I did that before with games. So no way to do that without AIR or Zinc? 2014-02-10 5:41 GMT+04:00 : > Natalia, > > You can use the File (see

[Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk (natalia Vikhtinskaya)

2014-02-10 Thread Wenzler, Thomas
You might look at mProjector or zinc or something in that lane. AFAIK these have the additional classes to let you write txt or xml to the filesystem without further permission by the user. But this only works as executable Projector, not via Browser. Best regards, Thomas Mit besten Grüßen au

Re: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread David Benman
AIR is another publishing method available in Flash and because it creates an executable that removes many of the Flash player's security restrictions. Prior to Flash CC you could also create a Mac or Windows projector that would save a file. I think most methods still require user interaction

Re: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk (natalia Vikhtinskaya)

2014-02-10 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
If I understand all advices correctly I created small test Flash CS6 and published as AIR app // xml personnel file var personnel:XML = CT Marketing NY Sales CT Engineering // new node appended personnel.appendChild( MA Sales ); var prefsFile:

Re: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Here how I try to save xml in the same folder where is my app import flash.filesystem.File; import flash.filesystem.FileStream; import flash.filesystem.FileMode; import flash.events.Event; //personnel. xml file .. // save to disk var appDirectory:File = File.applicationDirectory; var newFil

RE: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Hayes
you need to escape the \ like so "\\" appFile = appFile.resolvePath(fileString+"\\personnel.xml"); trace(fileString+"\\personnel.xml") From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] on behalf of natalia Vikhti

RE: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Hayes
Or use a / which I think works both on PC and the mac (which \ will not, that will only work on windows) Forgive me if I'm wrong on that one. From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] on behalf of Jim Haye

Re: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you! "\\' works. 2014-02-10 19:26 GMT+04:00 Jim Hayes : > you need to escape the \ like so "\\" > > appFile = appFile.resolvePath(fileString+"\\personnel.xml"); > trace(fileString+"\\personnel.xml") > > From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.c

Re: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread Henrik Andersson
Just use File.separator, it will get you the correct one if you care. Jim Hayes skriver: > Or use a / which I think works both on PC and the mac (which \ will not, > that will only work on windows) > Forgive me if I'm wrong on that one. > > From: flashcod

RE: [Flashcoders] Read and save xml file on disk

2014-02-10 Thread Jim Hayes
That I never knew! Even after years of using AIR. From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] on behalf of Henrik Andersson [he...@henke37.cjb.net] Sent: 10 February 2014 16:20 To: Flash Coders List Subject: