Extracting full path while uploading a file to server in Flex

In my free prototyping time I decided writing a simple uploader in AIR (what else?). I could create a working application in minutes using FileReference class and its method browse() (for opening a File Selection Dialog) and upload() method to upload the file.

But something looked odd. I wished to show the user the filepath he has selected in a disabled text box (the good old way..) but FileReference does not have the full path information. Googling helped. It said that “for security reasons full path of a file won’t be available in flash”. Valid. But then it clicked in my mind that I’m developing an AIR application. I talked to a friend, asked him for resolution. And that helped -

Use File intead of FileReference while developing AIR application. It is an extension to FileReference with more functionality (including a getter/setter to the private variable nativepath). Cool!

Thanks Raghu.