ActionScript 3 Air Desktop Application Browse For Local Directory Popup

Hello all,
I am developing a desktop Air program that will include a browse button that allows the user to click, and once the user clicks the button, I am wanting a pop-up window to appear that allows the user to browse to a writable folder/directory on his computer. Once the user selects a folder in the window, I want to grab that directory location and store it. The storing part I know how to do, but how to create this pop-up window or dialog, I do not have a clue where to start.
What's the simplest way to go about this?
Edit:
I see I can use this example from this site, but I don't know where to grab the directory the user selected: actionscript 3 - How to create "Browse for folder" dialog in Adobe FLEX? - Stack Overflow
var f : File = new File;
f.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onFolderSelected);
f.browseForDirectory("Choose a directory");

This seems to be supported by AIR only.
What gives you the impression?
AIR-only functions are marked with a fancy AIR logo
(like the first one in this list: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/images/sprite-index.png )
and getData doesn`t have it, so it should work without problems in the "normal" Flash Player if you follow the recepy:
Note for Flash Player applications: In Flash Player 10, a paste operation from the clipboard first requires a user event (such as a keyboard shortcut for the Paste command or a mouse click on the Paste command in a context menu). Clipboard.getData() will return the contents of the clipboard only if the InteractiveObject has received and is acting on a paste event. Calling Clipboard.getData() under any other circumstances will be unsuccessful.

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