Flex - How to browse and get the full path of a file on local machine's file system?

Question

I am working with Flex, Flash, Action Script and I want to browse the local machine file system using Operating System's file browse window and select a file then i want to get the full path of the selected file. How can I do this? Please give me some code.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think its the nativePath (which gives it in the OS's representation) property on the File object.

Here is a link: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=Filesystem_03.html

Answer 2

In Flash Player 10, you can use a FileReference to get the name or load the data of a file on the local filesystem, but are purposely restricted from getting the full file path and many other operations available with AIR's File and FileStream classes.

Answer 3

I think you can access the local files of the operating system in AIR applications.Plz correct me if wrong