Intro To Flex Builder - Questions Options

[donovans]

Hi

I've gone through the excellent tutorial and started putting my newly acquired knowledge to practice. I very quickly hit a stumbling block when trying to load a file with URLLoader. It all goes smoothly unless the filenames I'm loading end with ".properties" eg "env.properties". If I rename the file, everything is dandy, it just appears to dislike that suffix :S

I'm all googled out - how do i load a text file that happens to be called "whatever.properties"?

[cartoon_smart]

I don't know, I've never even heard of a dot properties file. But I think Flash is going to be pretty restrictive about the type of text files its willing to load. Like if its a text file, its going to want to see that .txt extension. Similarly, its is loading an xml file, it'll want that .xml extension.

One thing you might try would be adding the extension to your .properties file. so like myfile.properties.txt could work. There's some PHP scripts that rename files.

[donovans]

I don't know, I've never even heard of a dot properties file. But I think Flash is going to be pretty restrictive about the type of text files its willing to load. Like if its a text file, its going to want to see that .txt extension. Similarly, its is loading an xml file, it'll want that .xml extension.

One thing you might try would be adding the extension to your .properties file. so like myfile.properties.txt could work. There's some PHP scripts that rename files.

Unfortunately renaming isnt an option as its for a client who happens to use lots of files suffixed with ".properties". I'm pretty sure any file should be able to load, it shouldn't be dependant on filenames, but rather content type. Their particular files contain basic ascii characters, just the same as a .txt file. In fact, I can call it "myfile.wibblewobble" and it will work just fine, it's just the pesky ".properties" suffix that's freaking it out.

Just to be clear for other readers, renaming the files does work, just not an option for me as the files are used by lots of other processes.

PS thanks for the previous prompt reply!