If you find that URLRequest works on Windows but not on Mac then simply prepend file:// to your url string. This will then work on both Windows and Mac.
var myFilePath:String = “someFile.xml”;
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“file://” + myFilePath);
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Rob
October 30th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Brilliant! Fixed my problem exactly. (source worked on mac but not windows)
Rob
October 30th, 2009 at 5:37 am
oops – that’s worked on windows but not mac
Nestor
March 4th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
One thing to keep in mind is that macs use “/” and windows use “\”