Is it me or is file.url a lot easier to use than file.nativePath in Adobe AIR. Maybe I’m missing something because every tutorial or code snippet I can find uses file.nativePath.
I’m busy building an AIR application that can be used on Windows and Mac OS. I have to take care of the file structure of both systems. After I test my application on a Mac I couldn’t load anything from it. The reason of this problem is that Mac needs “file://” in front of the file URL to load the file correct.
When I had this problem I searched the internet for a solution. I found very complex solutions at EverythingFlex and Snipplr. But then I start to examine the File object and found just the right file url (on the Mac it adds “file://” in front of the url) just accessible with File.url. Then I tested it on Windows and it worked perfect.
I see no reason why I shouldn’t use this simple version of all the long code solutions that are available on the web. But like I said maybe I’m missing something?
I was wondering the exact same thing…
If someone has a clue!
The nativePath is formatted to a path the average user understands. Some users might see file:///C:/Program Files/… on windows and say: huh?
nativePath would read so they see C:Program Files… which would make sense to them.
I’ve always used nativePath when displaying a filepath to a user (like depicting a file they’ve chosen), and a url when you are loading that content into an Image component or something.
that sounds like a reasonable purpose to use nativePath. But why are the people of those scripts using file.nativePath instead of file.url?
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This saved my day Arno.
Thank you for this. Swapping .nativePath for .url has now made me all Mac compatible which gives me a nice warm feeling inside… or that may be the wine. But either way, thank you for your post, you’re a wonderful person.
And?? Did you miss something?
I too ran into the problem that my images did not load on a mac when i use nativepath as saved image urls.
Can i safely use url instead?