The csv I’m dropping was saved from MS Office Excel as csv.

Is there any specific save settings you need for the csv to recognize fromCharCode(13,10) ?

Your orders sample data works fine, but other csvs do not. It like they are not outputting an end-of-line.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Don

I am trying to adapt your code to accept dragging an e-mail (and preferably with attachments) from a Thunderbird client.
I don´t know if I should consider an e-mail as a file or a text. Thunderbird seems to be a mix of both.
Should it be implemented as a custom clipboard format? What would be the strategy to solve this?

Hope not to confuse you by explaining what I am trying to do…

This would be a cool way to implement an e-mail forwarding or even files uploading to an air application.
I am saying AIR because I imagine that it must be a native approach to it.

Can you give me a hint?
Thank you very much indeed.

Carlos

		=0; i--){
			      statement.text = "";
			      statement.text += "INSERT INTO " + tableName + " ";
			      statement.text += "(orderID, date, type, description, amount) ";
			      statement.text += "VALUES(@orderID, @date, @type, @description, @amount)";
			      statement.parameters["@orderID"] = categories[i].orderID;
			      statement.parameters["@date"] = categories[i].date;
			      statement.parameters["@type"] = categories[i].type;
			      statement.parameters["@description"] = categories[i].description;
			      statement.parameters["@amount"] = categories[i].amount;
			      statement.execute();
			   }
			   dbConnection.commit();
			}

			//GET RECORDS:
			//----------------------------------------------
			public function getData(_id:int=0):Array{
			   var statement:SQLStatement = new SQLStatement();
			   statement.sqlConnection = dbConnection;
			   statement.text = "SELECT * FROM " + tableName;
			   if(_id > 0){
			      statement.text += "WHERE transactionID = @id";
			      statement.parameters["@id"] = _id;
			   }
			   statement.execute();
			   var result:SQLResult = statement.getResult();
			   return result.data;
			}

			private function onInit():void{
				//register event listeners
				this.addEventListener(NativeDragEvent.NATIVE_DRAG_ENTER, dragEnterHandler);
				this.addEventListener(NativeDragEvent.NATIVE_DRAG_DROP, dragDropHandler);
			}

			private function dragEnterHandler(evt:NativeDragEvent):void{
				/**
				 * if the file format is allowable, accept the file.
				 * you could easily limit this to only accept the file extension you want
				 * */
				if(evt.clipboard.hasFormat(ClipboardFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT)){
					NativeDragManager.acceptDragDrop(this);
				}
			}

			private function dragDropHandler(evt:NativeDragEvent):void{
				NativeDragManager.dropAction = NativeDragActions.COPY;
				myLabel.text = "File Received";
				//get an array of the files dropped in
				var dropFiles:Array = evt.clipboard.getData(ClipboardFormats.FILE_LIST_FORMAT) as Array;
				//get the content of the file
				var fileContent:String = getFileContent(dropFiles[0]);
				//parse it to get an array of Orders
				var tempOrders:Array = new Array();
				tempOrders = parseCSV(fileContent);
				createDBConnection("orderDB","orders");
				save(tempOrders);
				orders = getData();
			}

			private function getFileContent(_file:File):String{
				//open a fileStream to read the content of the file
				var fileStream:FileStream = new FileStream();
				fileStream.open(_file, FileMode.READ);
				var fileContent:String = fileStream.readUTFBytes(fileStream.bytesAvailable);
				fileStream.close();
				return fileContent;
			}

			private function parseCSV(_content:String):Array{
				//create temporary array to store the Orders
				var csvArray:Array = new Array();
				//break the csv into individual lines
				var csvLines:Array = _content.split(String.fromCharCode(13,10));
				//remove title row
				csvLines.splice(0,1);
				//loop over each line
				for each(var s:String in csvLines){
					var lineItems:Array = s.split(",");
					var transaction:Order = new Order(	lineItems[0],
														new Date(lineItems[1]),
														lineItems[2],
														lineItems[3],
														lineItems[4]);
					csvArray.push(transaction);
				}
				return csvArray;
			}
		]]>

Sorry for the late response, I’m in the process of moving my blog to a new technology. I hope to write a full blog post about this soon, but for the meantime here are some basic examples of how to work with SQLite in AIR. I pulled these examples from separate pieces of code, so please keep in mind that these functions deal with different tables and won’t necessarily work together. I hope this gets you started in the right direction.

TO CREATE A DATABASE CONNECTION:
(this will create the db if it doesn't exist)
----------------------------------------------
public function createDBConnection(_dbName:String, _tableName:String){
   this.dbName = _dbName;
   this.tableName = _tableName;
   dbReference = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath(dbName+".db");
   dbConnection = new SQLConnection();
   dbConnection.open(dbReference);
}

TO CREATE A TABLE:
----------------------------------------------
public function createTable():void{
   var statement:SQLStatement = new SQLStatement();
   statement.sqlConnection = dbConnection;
   statement.text = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " + tableName + " ";
   statement.text += "(ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, ";
   statement.text += "category TEXT, ";
   statement.text += "parentID INTEGER)";
   statement.execute();
}

INSERT RECORD:
----------------------------------------------
public function save(categories:Array):void{
   var statement:SQLStatement = new SQLStatement();
   statement.sqlConnection = dbConnection;
   // do this async, and in transaction/commit
   dbConnection.begin();
   for(var i:int=categories.length-1; i>=0; i--){
      statement.text = "";
      statement.text += "INSERT INTO " + tableName + " ";
      statement.text += "(category, parentID) ";
      statement.text += "VALUES(@category, @parentID)";
      statement.parameters["@category"] = categories[i].category;
      statement.parameters["@parentID"] = categories[i].parentID;
      statement.execute();
   }
   dbConnection.commit();
}

GET RECORDS:
----------------------------------------------
public function getData(_id:int=0):Array{
   var statement:SQLStatement = new SQLStatement();
   statement.sqlConnection = dbConnection;
   statement.text = "SELECT * FROM " + tableName;
   if(_id > 0){
      statement.text += "WHERE transactionID = @id";
      statement.parameters["@id"] = _id;
   }
   statement.execute();
   var result:SQLResult = statement.getResult();
   return result.data;
}

Thanks