How can an AS3 project that was formerly published as AIR be published as an exe?

Question

When I try to publish as AIR, it only publishes an AIRI file, that doesn't execute. While the preview functions properly, when I try to publish as an exe, it seems to start at a submenu rather than the normal starting frame. Can AS3 have any internal AIR dependencies, or is there another reason why the exe doesn't start properly?

JoãoCésar17023019 · Accepted Answer

This app only needs to read the names and locations of files, (images, video and text), to dynamically load. But they're on the local file system. Since AIR is no longer directly supported by Adobe, and needs to use Harmen support, I'd prefer to keep this in Flash, so I'd like to find examples of how to read from the local file system. Thanks

If you search in the web for terms like "AS3 load bitmap" or "AS3 load text" you'll find many resources.

For example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/702164/how-do-you-load-a-bitmap-file-into-a-bitmapdata-object

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/888023/reading-the-text-file-line-by-line-and-push-to-an-array-in-as3

https://riptutorial.com/actionscript-3/example/7958/load-and-play-external-video-file