Loading File in Flex without AIR?

Question

i am using flexbuilder 3 now i need to load xml file from disk using flex without AIR i imported flash.filesystem.File but error occured. but AIR project,flash.filesystem.File was successfully imported. Cant i use flash.filesystem.File from flex without using AIR???

Answer 1

You can only use flash.filesystem.File in AIR. But you can still load XML files using either HTTPService or URLLoader. Check out this answer which has sample code for loading XML into Flex.

If you get a Security Sandbox Error when trying to load, set the Flex Compiler argument use-network=false, which will allow you to load local files into the swf.