Help with file browsing

[Raconteur]

Hi all,

I am writing a little asset manager in Flash Builder 4.5, using the Flex4 SDK.

What I want to allow my users to do is be able to select a file from their hard drive. I have this very simply with:

var file:File = new File();
file.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, fileSelected);
file.browseForOpen("Select an image");

What is missing is:
#1 - I need to be able to open the dialog box on given folder. The system sets a default folder to look in in a previous step.

#2 - I want to pass a filter to the dialog box for both file type (PNG, JPG, GIF, etc.) and a prefix (MyAsset_* or something like that). A filename would conform to this type of filter - My_Asset_*.png or MyAsset_*.gif.

I know I can set a FileFilter, but that seems to only care about extensions.

Is there a way to do this with the SDK or will it require custom code? If so, can someone point me in the right direction on how to do that?

Cheers,

Chris

[Raconteur]

Ok... found how to set the folder to browse from:

file.nativePath = "/Path/to/my/assets";

Easy enough...