Comments on: Drag-n-Drop file into an AIR app http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/ Welcome to my blogging page. Hope you will enjoy it. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:54:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: brianchau http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1960 brianchau Tue, 05 May 2009 02:48:57 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1960 Mitch, you can use the String class and its methods like substr() or substring() to extract the file name less the extension. Mitch, you can use the String class and its methods like substr() or substring() to extract the file name less the extension.

]]> By: Mitch http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1959 Mitch Tue, 05 May 2009 01:52:17 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1959 Sorry Brian, I made a typo and couldnt delete the post, Im wanting to get the file name by iteself without the .flv extension. Cheers Sorry Brian, I made a typo and couldnt delete the post,

Im wanting to get the file name by iteself without the .flv extension.

Cheers

]]> By: Mitch http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1958 Mitch Tue, 05 May 2009 01:49:24 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1958 Hi Brian, Firstly thank you for the insight above regarding drag and dropping in Air. Was great to see a stripped down simple code source for this to get my head around. Just wondering if you tell me how I can display the draged file.name property with the files extension. I have changed the case statement to this path_txt.text = file.name; this works however is there a way to just get the file name without the extension? Cheers, Hi Brian,

Firstly thank you for the insight above regarding drag and dropping in Air. Was great to see a stripped down simple code source for this to get my head around.

Just wondering if you tell me how I can display the draged file.name property with the files extension.

I have changed the case statement to this
path_txt.text = file.name;

this works however is there a way to just get the file name without the extension?

Cheers,

]]> By: KJ http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1809 KJ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:09:13 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1809 Interesting. Thanks for that. Interesting. Thanks for that.

]]> By: Paeth.ClaudiusRaphael http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1799 Paeth.ClaudiusRaphael Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:23:55 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1799 Due to the fact that AIR's intent is cross-OS-compatibility it is imaginable why AIR doesn't deliver the file-ending via script-function. Under non-Windows-OS's the file-ending is just used by some applications by parsing the file-name to quicken the check for the correct file-type. The system itself uses file-meta-descriptions or file-header-binary-information, while Windows is using the file-ending in most cases to direct the io-streaming of the files content to the right file-filter. Just an explanation... Thought it might be helpful to know. With best regards, Paeth.ClaudiusRaphael, A3lyphe Due to the fact that AIR’s intent is cross-OS-compatibility it is imaginable why AIR doesn’t deliver the file-ending via script-function. Under non-Windows-OS’s the file-ending is just used by some applications by parsing the file-name to quicken the check for the correct file-type. The system itself uses file-meta-descriptions or file-header-binary-information, while Windows is using the file-ending in most cases to direct the io-streaming of the files content to the right file-filter.

Just an explanation… Thought it might be helpful to know.

With best regards,

Paeth.ClaudiusRaphael, A3lyphe

]]> By: kj http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1498 kj Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:13:04 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1498 Thanks Brian, I used that method as a last resort. It just seemed a little bit untidy to me. I just assumed that LoaderInfo would contain that sort of information but it doesn't seem to. Thanks Brian,
I used that method as a last resort. It just seemed a little bit untidy to me. I just assumed that LoaderInfo would contain that sort of information but it doesn’t seem to.

]]> By: brianchau http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1497 brianchau Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:13:40 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1497 KJ, if the filename is stored as a text variable, then I would use the String class method like Split() to look for the "." character. KJ, if the filename is stored as a text variable, then I would use the String class method like Split() to look for the “.” character.

]]> By: KJ http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1495 KJ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:46:59 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1495 Hi Brian. I was wondering if it was possible to get the file extension from a Loader? I'm using a loader to load a file via a urlrequest but also need to access the file extension. Any ideas? Hope all is good. KJ Hi Brian. I was wondering if it was possible to get the file extension from a Loader? I’m using a loader to load a file via a urlrequest but also need to access the file extension. Any ideas?

Hope all is good.

KJ

]]> By: Jeroen Beckers http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1185 Jeroen Beckers Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:02:31 +0000 http://brianchau.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/drag-n-drop-file-into-an-air-app/#comment-1185 Thanks! Thanks!

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