Writing in to a Text file in Vista 32 OS

Dear Friends,
I have developed a standalone ticker in Adobe AIR, in that
iam storing setting options in a local text file. It is working
fine in XP.
but when i install my application(ticker) in Vista32 OS,
when i do changes in my setting file, i have to write the changes
in local text file. it is not writing the modified setting text in
the text file. my coding is:
function writefile() {
tempscr1=3;
var finalstr2:String =
"smallwinmode="+smscr+"&speed="+setmc.tickeropt.sld.s.value+"&alert="+altval+"&maxi="+max ifeed+"&alwtop="+setmc.tickeropt.aifch.selected+"&prescr="+tempscr1+"&prescrx="+newwindow3 .x+"&prescry="+newwindow3.y+"&firstinstal="+fins;
var dskTopFileStream2:FileStream = new FileStream();
var dskTopFile2:File = File.applicationDirectory;
var fileString2:String = (dskTopFile2.nativePath +
"\\settings.txt");
dskTopFile2 = dskTopFile2.resolvePath(fileString2);
dskTopFileStream2.openAsync(dskTopFile2, FileMode.WRITE);
dskTopFileStream2.writeUTFBytes(finalstr2);
dskTopFileStream2.close();
Anybody can help me. if it works in Vista also i can release
my product, i got struct up... kindly tell me should i change my
coding to write txt file in Visa? pls help me....
Thanks in advance,
Syed Abdul Rahim

Your user probably doesn't have permission to write to the
application directory. The OS is right to protect the program
directory.
You should be writing data files into the user's home
directory somewhere. All of the other "somethingDirectory"
properties of File name such directories. For files that the user
doesn't actually work with directly, I prefer
applicationStorageDirectory myself. For files you are writing out
for the user to see, I'd use documentsDirectory instead.

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System.out.print("Enter a name: ");
name = input.readLine();
a.add(name);
public void writeToFile(List a)throws IOException
PrintWriter output = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("names.txt"));
output.print(name); //Problem area - handles only one line of input, overwrites previous input
output.close();

System.out is an instance of PrintStream (check the API documents for the System class to see this).
So the easiest way to convert from a "print to screen" class to a "print to file" class is to acquire a PrintStream that prints to a file, and use it exactly the same as you'd have used System.out...
So start with your console code...
        PrintStream out = System.out;
        for(int i = 0; i <10; i++){
            out.println("Number " +i);
        }Then you adapt to file code:
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("temp.txt");
        PrintStream out = new PrintStream(fos);
        for(int i = 0; i <10; i++){
            out.println("Number " +i);
        out.flush();
        out.close();Note that we flush the stream because for reasons of efficiency files aren't necessarily written to disk until you explicitly ask the system to do so (memory is fast, disks are slow, that's why).
Closing the stream releases system resources associated with it.
Actually, that's redundant, because close calls flush automatically, but I left it in for clarity.
Any use ?

Writing in to a Text file in Vista 32 OS

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