OpenFL. What's the best way to work with Filesystem (read/write files and zip-archives)?

[Roman O.]

Hello guys,

I'm making an app with OpenFL + Haxe. It will target windows + flash probably (but not necessary, may be flash as AIR-app if windows version fails). Currently I develop and test UI as flash-app.

The app would have to work with filesystem, read and save files, pack a zip-archive etc.

What would be the best practice here?
I see that OpenFL has openfl.filesystem.File class. I also see there's sys.io package in Haxe.There are some other libs.

I'm confused and would like to ask anyone with the experience to give me any adive here.

Thank you.

[Mark]

I answed a fine similar question here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26342437/haxe-openfl-app-targeting-flash-html5-airdesktop-how-to-handle-filesystem-dat/26504780#26504780

[Roma Oskolkov]

Thanks!

But I still have unclear things.

What is the difference between haxe.io  and sys.io packages?

What is the equivalent of FileReference.browse?

[Roma Oskolkov]

Has anyone worked with systools library?

I don't understand how "saveFile" method works.

It has 4 arguments, and none of them concerns the real data I want to write down.

How do I pass the bytes?

weird.

[Roma Oskolkov]

Oh I get it, it doesn save it only opens the dialog window. All right

[Mark]

what I do in these cases is go to [haxe install folder]\std\haxe\io and sys\io and look up & check the source files.

if you do this too, you'll get a very clear answer to your question ;)