AIR App, load externally hosted SWF which loads XML

I am wondering if this is even possible, because I am getting error 2148.
I am loading in SWF files that are externally hosted into an AIR app. Everything works great!
Is it possible to have one of these child SWFs load in some type of XML data or access an XML file on the desktop/tmp?
Or if need be, should I have the AIR app do all the loading (including the other XML) and pass that to the child SWF?
Thanks in advance!
In detail:
AIR app -> Loads SWFs
SWFS -> Load XML
SWF -> displays something or does something RAD!!!
Stuff I have tried:
Ive added an mms.cfg file in the proper places, as well as, changed my adobe security settings to allow access to a "tmp" folder on desktop. The loaded SWF from an external domain loads fine however it still shows an error 2148 when trying to access an XML file within the "tmp" folder on desktop. The SWF when published is also set to "access local files"

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Is this happening on multiple devices or just the one? Any chance we could get access to your application to try it out? If so, could you please open a new bug report on this over at bugbase.adobe.com? If you'd like to keep your app/code private, feel free to email the attachment to me directly ([email protected]).
Once added, please post back with the URL so that others affected can add their comments and votes.

Tweens don't work in multiple external AS2 SWFs loaded by AS3 SWF

When I try to load a single external AS2 SWF in an AS3 parent
SWF, scripted tweens using the mx.tween class work fine. However,
when I load two or more external AS2 SWFs, the first will work, but
in subsequent SWFs the tweens do not animate. Does anyone have a
solution?
Related post:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=147637

SymTsb,
So what is the code to do that? To delete the TWEEN variable?
easeTime = .5;
var day_handlerX:Tween = new
mx.transitions.Tween(daynightlabel_mc, "_x",
mx.transitions.easing.Regular.easeOut, daynightlabel_mc._x,
(left_point+daynightlabel_mc_leftDifference), easeTime, true);
day_handlerX.onMotionFinished = function() {
trace("day_handlerX="+day_handlerX);
trace("day_handlerX onMotionFinished triggered");
delete day_handlerX;
trace("deleted day_handlerX="+day_handlerX);
does not work. the TWEEN object is still there.
Can ADOBE say something??
AS3 is ...

I have apps loaded on my iPad. they show in the main screen are not available to load documents to in the window list which should appear below the main window. the same apps do appear in the sub window on my other iPad. any ideas?

i have apps loaded on my iPad. they show in the main screen are not available to load documents to in the window list which should appear below the main window. the same apps do appear in the sub window on my other iPad. any ideas?

From what I can see, unless you're doing things with old versions of Xcode on a Mac (in which case, the solution seems to be to upgrade to the latest version), this seems to e an iTunes issue.
Accepting that it works fine with another iPad, I suggest trying the following:
1. Restart the non-working iPad
2. If that doesn't work, reinstall iTunes. If you're on a Windows PC, I suggest using Control Panel to uninstall all the Apple apps, restarting the PC, and doing a fresh install. If you're using a Mac, a repair permissions might help too.
iTunes 10.3 is now available, and that may make a difference.

AIR app communnicating with External App

I would like to make my AIR app communicate with another
application that's running on the desktop. What are the best ways
to do this?
Ideally I'm looking to call functions inside the AIR app from
a separate program, and vice versa. This is in fact possible using
the ExternalInterface capability, however, this is only available
when the separate application is an ActiveX container (such as the
browser), and thus contains the FlashPlayer ActiveX control within
it. But what if your AS3 application doesn't just run inside the
FlashPlayer but requires the AIR runtime instead? There doesn't
seem to be any way that an external app. can talk to an AIR app the
way it can call functions on the FlashPlayer.
My reasons for needing this are that while AS3 is great,
especially for creating an interactive interface, there are still
some low-level things which must be coded in another language.
Any thoughts that anyone has on this topic would be greatly
appreciated.

Hi Bruce,
In theory, you can do what you want, but it is an indirect
way of achieving it, and there are some performance/functional
issues.
You can make a windows application that is an ActiveX control
container, and put the FlashPlayer control inside it. Handle the
"FlashCall" event in your windows program (this is fired when your
swf calls a custom external function), and then you can use it to
load and call whatever .dll function you want.
In practice, from what I've observed, there are some
limitations. The graphics performance of the FlashPlayer suffers
when embedded this way in a Windows app. Also, if you want to call
into the flashplayer sometimes the function calls fail. Having said
this, my experience is limited to AS2 implementations; maybe things
have improved with AS3.
Anyway, hope this helps. Would be interested to hear your
observations if you should try this route.
Ed

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