File name arrays?

[Yambanshee]

Well i posted this on the programming forum, but they didint have a clue, so i was wondering if any of you know of a way to either:

rename every file in a folder to 1, 2, 3 etc...
get an array of all the files inside a folder to be put into flash as an array

ANY help would be great, and i cant use AIR cuz im on flash 8

[UnknownFury]

Why would you want to actually rename the files? What's wrong with leaving the filenames as they are and loading them in?

[Yambanshee]

im making a mp3 player that i want any mp3 files to be copyed into a folder. problem is this is my loading script:
sound.loadSound("Music/"+songNum+".mp3", false);

As you can see i need somekind of variable to load the specific name. Either in a array or a number will work perfectly

[Yambanshee]

does anyone have any suggestions?

[LeechmasterB]

This shouldn't be possible with flash alone due to sandbox restrictions. And i don't mean the changing filenames (that will not be possible anyhow) but even reading unknown files. With flash 8 there are even less options then with a newer version...

You could simply put the files into a folder by hand and modify a text file or xml file to keep the filenames. Then you load the text/xml file with the filenames and read them and load the mp3s according to that.

[Yambanshee]

At 9/29/09 10:35 AM, LeechmasterB wrote: This shouldn't be possible with flash alone due to sandbox restrictions.

Good suggestion with the text-box. Another question though, do you know of any programming languages that can store something like file names into a text box so that i can load them into flash? or will it have to be done manually?

[LeechmasterB]

You can either write down the song names and paths manually or create a program that creates the file for you automatically in some other programming language.

[Yambanshee]

At 9/29/09 11:03 AM, LeechmasterB wrote: or create a program that creates the file for you automatically in some other programming language.

that was sort of my question, do you know of any such language?

[Jin]

You asked this already, and got a perfect answer.

[GustTheASGuy]

You don't need Flash CS3 to use AIR. As always, Flex is free.

In order to communicate to a program capable of manipulating files, you need either a wrapper (a program to embed the Player like for example a browser does) or to convert your app to a projector and call a program from that.

To do the first, you use either AIR or haXe's SWHX or some other shareware shit. They're both extremely simple.
To do the second, you have to be gay. Just make a separate program to do the file manipulation.

What language to use? Any fucking language ever. Unless you're on Windows your computer should already have a dozen compilers, otherwise download a C one of a few megabytes.

[hdxmike]

Use some XML file or buy MDM zinc 3.0 it far expands the possibilities of your flash
but flash alone and its going to be difficult if not impossible

[GustTheASGuy]

At 9/29/09 11:34 AM, hdxmike wrote: Use some XML file or buy MDM zinc 3.0 it far expands the possibilities of your flash
but flash alone and its going to be difficult if not impossible

XML has nothing to do with it. Don't use words you don't understand.
Zinc is of the shareware shit I was referring to.
Flash purposely prevents you from doing this. That's the reason of the thread.

[Yambanshee]

thanx gust, im reading up on haxe right now.