Question

I’d like to make an image slider and mp3 player that would take files not from XML but directly form the folder and probably put them into an array.

After searching a while, I couldn’t find specific answer on this question.

Is a thing like this achievable in Flash? and how?

Thank you!

Answer 1

The Answer is yes if you want to build a desktop app. Then you can access a folder via the air runtime. This is very easy:

var directory:File = File.documentsDirectory; 
var contents:Array = directory.getDirectoryListing();  
for (var i:uint = 0; i < contents.length; i++)  
{ 
     trace(contents[i].name, contents[i].size);  
}

If you want to create a web application. Then No.