How Adobe AIR program can to index all images on a user's computer?

Question

What is the fastest way for a Adobe AIR program program to index all images on a users' computer?

Using Open Source ActionScript-3, MXML Libs and classes.

• Fastest - Same pc configuration, different time (seconds)

• To index - get a list of absolute links (like c://bla-bla/file ) and save them into file (index.txt)

• All images (like JPEGs, PNGs)

Answer 1

Not sure if it's the fastest, but what comes to mind is using AIR's Native Process API to make the search through command prompt.

A simple example would be

find *.jpg *.jpeg *.png

You can then use standardOutput.readUTFBytes. This might be faster then writing the search result to a text file then loading. After that you can parse the file. You can always have a look at the find options for better results.

Anyway, just a thought...speaking of which, to quote @quoo:

why would you want to do this?