loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;

Right?

I don’t know what the deal is, but it seems there is a mistake with the URLLoaderDataFormat, change your type to URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT or URLLoaderDataFormat.BINARY or make the line say this instead:

loader.dataFormat = “VARIABLES”;
and it should work. The URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES is “variables” instead of “VARIABLES”.

You would need to use a server side language such as ColdFusion, or PHP to get a directory listing and then return the list of files/attributes to Flash Player using XML or some other format.

Peter

I need a simple array with filenames that are inside a given directory.
so, I have a function getallfilesinfolder(foldername:string):array
{
var arr:Array = new Array();

return arr;
}

lets say i have a folder called http://www.mywebsite.com/images/cars/

inside that cars folder are an x number of images (jpg, png)

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in air i use this:
public function getallfilesinfolder(foldername:String):Array
{
var filearray:Array=new Array();
var directory:File = File.applicationDirectory;
directory = directory.resolvePath(“gardenimages/”+foldername+”");
var contents:Array = directory.getDirectoryListing();
for (var i:Number = 0; i < contents.length; i++)
{
if(contents[i].type==".jpg" ||contents[i].type==".JPG" || contents[i].type==".png") filearray.push(contents[i].nativePath);
}
return filearray;
}
———

How do i get a list of filenames from the server?

but i m getting this error,
can anyone pls solve this problem?
Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::URLVariables/decode()
at flash.net::URLVariables()

from the Flex docs, it seems that the URLVariables class is meant to be used for passing url parameters when constructing a request going from the client to the server (in here is being used for parsing properties which is slightly different). What I’ve found is that the URLVariables class tokenizes the variables using the & as a delimiter, so:

var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(“a=foo&b=baz&c=bar”);

will be correctly split as name-value pairs. This is the reason why you only see the first name-value pair from your properties file, as this file uses a new line character as the tokenizer.

I got the example provided above to work by replacing the code:

var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(ldr.data);
var key:String;

for (key in vars) {
paramColl.addItem({key:key, value:vars[key]});
}

with:

var lines:Array = ( ldr.data as String ).split( “\n” );

for each ( var line:String in lines ) {
var pair:Array = line.split( “=” );
paramColl.addItem( { key:pair[0], value:pair[1] } );
}

Thank you very much to Peter for sharing the snippet.