Alex’s Flex Closet

Hi Alex,

This is just a general question, not on lists.

But does flex have any way to read files syncronously?

You see, I am developing an app that really needs to read a lot of small files, in order. Having to spawn off a new event for each and every file totally will make my code into a mess.

The files will be read locally. I just want to read my files syncronously.

Is this possible within flex? I tried making a busy loop that checked for a flag set by the loaded event, but it seemed like the loop froze the event! Catch-22!

I don't suppose you know of some clever little insider trick that could be used to allow events to fire from within busy loops, so that I can freeze my code's execution until the file is loaded? Just like how reading files is supposed to work, normally. Except without the excessive CPU usage that such a loop creates :(

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There is no synchronous file I/o in the flash player. Note also that in general, a server-based app cannot access local files on the client computer. If you use Apollo/AIR, you should get much better file i/o performance, but web-based stuff will still be asynch.

Generally, you do not loop waiting for file i/o to finish. Listen for the COMPLETE event instead.

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Thanks Alex for the Demo and Download link... Very usefully and helps very great ;)

Thanks

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