Flex 2 - Read local File

This is a simple Flex 2 project that reads data from a local file and displays it on a text area on the click of the Fetch Data button. There are different ways in which you can capture data from a file, i.e, in simple String variable, an XMLDocument etc.

There's a trick to mention the URL of the file when the Data.txt file is not in the same folder as the main .mxml file. For example, if your file is in a folder called News, then the URLRequest should contain the location of the file like this:

"./News/Data.txt". Ofcourse, the News folder should be in the same domain. If you need to access a file in another domain, you will have to make a cross-domain file. This I will be discussing later.

The project structure should be like this for the below code to work:


This example shows a simple Data.txt file being read.



THE OUTPUT:

SOURCE CODE
Listing of LocalFileRead.mxml