I’ve never tried that, but I’m guessing it should work. I have an example of the FileReference class’s new load() method at http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/25/previewing-an-image-before-uploading-it-using-the-filereference-class-in-flash-player-10/

This code is fairly untested (I only quickly checked it locally, not from a remote webserver), but this may help get you started:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FxApplication name="DefineFont4_cff_test"
        xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009">
    <layout>
        <BasicLayout />
    </layout>

    <Style>
        VGroup {
            left: 10;
            right: 10;
            top: 10;
            bottom: 10;
        }
    </Style>

    <Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private var fileRef:FileReference;

            private function button_click(evt:MouseEvent):void {
                var xmlFileFilter:FileFilter = new FileFilter("XML files (.xml)", "*.xml");

                fileRef = new FileReference();
                fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, fileRef_select);
                fileRef.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fileRef_complete);
                fileRef.browse([xmlFileFilter]);
            }

            private function fileRef_select(evt:Event):void {
                fileRef.load();
            }

            private function fileRef_complete(evt:Event):void {
                var len:int = fileRef.data.length;
                var str:String = fileRef.data.readUTFBytes(len);
                var dataXML:XML = new XML(str);
                textArea.text = dataXML.toXMLString();
            }
        ]]>
    </Script>

    <VGroup>
        <Button id="button"
                label="Load file..."
                click="button_click(event);" />
        <TextArea id="textArea"
                width="100%"
                height="100%" />
    </VGroup>

</FxApplication>

Peter

Thanks for the tutorial, it works great. Im wondering if its possible to change the data on the Fly.

for example, creating a FileReference variable and then using the fileRef.browse(); to browse for the .xml file you want to populate the grid with.

Any ideas?

Thanks - your site rocks.

The previous video doesn’t display any video at all. It simply displays an XML packet in a Flex DataGrid control.
If you want to display a video you need to use the VideoDisplay control, or use the NetStream, NetConnection, and Video classes.

Peter

Also, I tried the above code and it didn’t load for me.
var itemA:Number = parseInt(objA.Time.text()) as Number;
var itemB:Number = parseInt(objB.Time.text()) as Number;