Month: March 2008

Adobe technology platform RIA guide

This is simply the link list contained in the recently released Adobe technology platform ActionScript Reference PDF.

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Write with AIR applications to the application resource directory

AIR applications are not permitted to write to the application resource directory. This seems to be a security feature and makes sense, because some systems would not allow to write into this directory at system level.

But for testing purposes you might hack this by using a single line of code:

// Writing into that file would fail
var yourFileInAppDir: File = File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath( "yourFile.xml" );
// This is the simple hack:
yourFileInAppDir = new File( yourFileInAppDir.nativePath );

But this only avoids a AIR security error! You must be sure to have write access to the directory!