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Developing websites or web applications with Adobe Flash can be fun and creative. It’s possible to obtain spectacular graphical effects for your portals and create easy-to-use browsing systems. However, it can be a little more frustrating to work with ActionScript if you need to interact with data to access local files and their content or write data to the user’s computer.

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© 2009 Marco Casario with Andrew Shorten, Koen De Weggheleire, and Matteo Ronchi

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(2009). Accessing the File System. In: The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1589-9_7

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