sounds like a good bit of asynchronous fun to be had!

'Surely Flex has a means to look at a directory to see if a file exists.'
Note, I'd say this is true IFF you are working with Flex in AIR.  Flex in
the browser is a no go and hence the above suggestions.

DK

On Jan 29, 2008 3:41 PM, Darin Kohles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd recommend using a Loader and listening for an IO error:
>
> var loader:Loader = new Loader();
> loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
> ioErrorHandler);
> loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,
> completeHandler);
> var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
>
> loader.load(request);
>
> Then you'll either receive an IO_ERROR - which mean you should use
> your default image, otherwise you'll receive the COMPLETE event, and
> you can apply the loader content as your image.
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 1:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok someone remind me to get a Flex poster at the next meeting.
> >
> > Need some logic help in flex.
> >
> > Trying to mimic the fileexists from CF directly in flash/flex.
> >
> > I have a resultset that has an item id that has to match an image.
> > I am building the the string like this:
> > source = 'assets/somedirectory/' + result.id + '.jpg'  (works
> correctly).
> >
> > The database is read only and doesn't have any association with the
> images.
> >
> > if match then display, else display default.
> >
> > Now I want to check and see if the image is in the directory and display
> it if it is.
> > If not display a default image.
> >
> > Tried file reference to no avail.
> > Surely Flex has a means to look at a directory to see if a file exists.
> > Most of the blogs and articles I have found have to do with file upload
> or download, I just want to see if an image is in  a directory or not.
> >
> > Any thoughts appreciated.
> >
> >
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