File Management?

[Juce]

I would eventually like to make a flash-based installer for software. Is there a way to script a file so it can move, copy and/or rename files on a hard drive? Obviously, it wouldn't be embedded in a website.

Thanks,
Juce

[Northcode]

You can do some basic file copying for FREE with a couple of utilities that I wrote. Check out 2desktop and copy2. If you really want a professional looking end product built with Flash then you'll probably want to look a commercial swf2exe tool. Here's a list to get you started.

SWF Studio http://www.northcode.com (my baby)
mProjector http://www.screentime.com
Zinc http://www.multidmedia.com
SWFKit http://www.swfkit.com
SWiSH Studio http://www.swishzone.com
Jugglor http://www.jugglor.com

[Juce]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try those apps out. is there a way to edit the registry, too?

[Northcode]

Most of the third party tools I listed have some kind of registry support.

I know that SWF Studio's is pretty comprehensive because I wrote it You can read/write/delete keys and values, enumerate keys and manipulate data in multiple formats including REG_DWORD, REG_DWORD_LITTLE_ENDIAN, REG_SZ, REG_EXPAND_SZ, REG_BINARY, and REG_MULTI_SZ.

[renderhjs]

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