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Reading a file Asynchronously with ActionScript 3

/ Published in: ActionScript 3

This code shows you how to load large files using as3. This is good for loading in large files. Flash Player will fire events as the data becomes available.

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// Imports
      import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
      import flash.filesystem.FileStream;
      import flash.filesystem.File;
      import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
      import flash.events.Event;
 
      // Declare the FileStream and String variables
 
      private var _fileStream:FileStream;
 
      private var _fileContents:String;
 
      private function onCreationComplete():void // Fired when the application has been created
 
      {
 
      var myFile:File = File.appResourceDirectory; // Create out file object and tell our File Object where to look for the file
 
      myFile = myFile.resolve("mySampleFile.txt"); // Point it to an actual file
 
 
      _fileStream = new FileStream(); // Create our file stream
 
      _fileStream.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onFileProgress); // Add our the progress event listener
 
      _fileStream.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onFileComplete); // Add our the complete event listener
 
      _fileStream.openAsync(myFile, FileMode.READ); // Call the openAsync() method instead of open()
 
      }
      private function onFileProgress(p_evt:ProgressEvent):void // Event handler for the PROGRESS Event
      {
      _fileContents += _fileStream.readMultiByte(_fileStream.bytesAvailable, "iso-8859-1"); // Read the contens of the file and add to the contents variable
 
      fileContents_txt.text = _fileContents; // Display the contents. I've created a TextArea on the stage for display
      }
 
      private function onFileComplete(p_evt:Event):void // Event handler for the COMPLETE event
 
      {
      _fileStream.close(); // Clean up and close the file stream
      }