I see that Adobe AIR uses WebKit as its render and I see that WebKit (at least the most current build) has some SVG support. Does this mean (and has anyone specifically tried) that an Adobe AIR application could render SVG on an HTML page? ...
My team is about to build a new product and we are using Flex as the front end. There are other book posts on stackoverflow, but I couldn't find one that matched my needs. My manager will be purchasing books for our team to use as a resource so... What are the best books about Flex (including using a web browser, or Adobe AIR applicat...
Can anyone recommend a good book on Adobe Air? The book I'm looking for should be on how Air works using HTML and JavaScript. I'm not interested in the Flash/Flex part. ...
Is it possible to assign a global hotkey to a specific feature in an Adobe AIR app, i.e. the app feature responds to the hotkey whether the app is active or not (it must be running of course, but only in the system tray). ...
For example, if I were to write a calendar app on top of AIR, say with Flex, could this app pop up reminder windows for approaching appointments, just like Microsoft Outlook can? Clarification: Can those windows be actual dialogs where I can enter and save information? ...
There are tons of free wysiwyg editors you can embed in web pages. I'm looking for something that is easiest to embed into an adobe air app. Means something that works in webkit and is easy to get the content from with javascript. ...
I'd like to have a custom object attached to the application so I can preserve state in it between different html pages in adobe air. Is this possible? I was asking for a fullblown solution to store a custom js object in memory and persist it between pages loaded from the application sandbox, but this cannot be done unless I use ifram...
I have an AIR application that takes command-line arguments via onInvoke. All is good, but I cannot figure out how to print some status messages back to the user (to stdout / console, so to speak). Is it possible? Even a default log file for traces would be fine, but I can't find any info about it anywhere. Do I need to create my own lo...
When used in an AIR app, some standard keystrokes in OS X are either ignored or produce "mystery" characters rather than behaving as expected. Examples: option + left arrow should move the caret one word backward, it prints a mystery character ctrl + h should delete one character backward, it prints h How do I support OS X default ke...
I need to be able to contribute to a relatively large Adobe AIR project and I'm starting from scratch with this technology. What's the best way to go about it? I usually get a good book/tutorial and work my way through it but this time it seems there's just too much to learn for this to be feasible within a reasonable time frame. I woul...
How can I use command line arguments in a creationComplete event handler? It seems the invoke event happens in my AIR app after creationComplete gets called, so I can't use the args in that function, although I really would like to. Any other event that might always fire after the invoke event happens? ...
I recently started to develop using Flex 3 and Adobe Air and I wanted to know what features you want to be in futures releases of Adobe Air ? The ones that I miss are: Cross-systems way of launching a local file (shellExec) right from an Air application (although you can do this using workaround at least under Windows) Ability to setup...
I was create an air application . How to create auto update in adobe Flex 3 air ...
I want to be able to launch a third party process from within an Adobe AIR application (actually a command line process). Is there a security context that AIR apps run in that prevents this? ...
Can Someone show me a good example of one Adobe Air App (using Javascript) consuming a REST API? ...
In our Flex AIR app, we have the problem that our main app window is fairly narrow. This means Alert dialog boxes are chopped on both side, while the right click menu is cropped. How can we get these windows to not get cropped by our main window? ...
I have to choose a platform for our product. I have to decide between The Qt Framework and Adobe's AIR. I am well versed with Qt as I have worked for the last two years. I looked up at the Adobe's site but all the info about flex, flash, ability to coding in HTML/ActionScript is overwhelming and confusing. I cannot understand the followi...
I know this is a longshot but I was wondering if anyone knows if this is possible. ...
Hi, I have a mx:Canvas element that contains several mx:Panel elements. I want to be able to draw a line connecting two such mx:Panel's in such a way that the line continues to connect the two mx:Panels when one or both get dragged around. It seems like something that should be trivial to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I...
How do I download a file from the internet in a Flex based AIR application. I tried using a file with url set to the address, but I got a file does not exist error when I tried to save it. And it is really hard to google for help on this issue. ...