adobe-air

Can an AIR application access its own digital signature?

All AIR installation files must be digitally signed (http://help.adobe.com/...). Is there a way for an AIR application to access this signature information at runtime? Say, I'm distributing client-side component of a client-server application, and this client component is implemented using AIR, and I want to prevent* modified copies of ...

Using HTML And Web Languages For Windows Mobile Development

I'm now thinking in develop some Windows Mobile applications in a different language, then I choosed HTML and the other Web Languages, but: It's possible to use Web languages to develop Windows Mobile applcations, as Adobe AIR in PCs? Where can I get it? ...

Generate certificate for signing AIR app

How do I generate a self-signed certificate to sign an adobe AIR app? I'm using the maven flexmojos plugin. I've followed an openssl tutorial to generate a .p12, but now the mvn plugin /adt compiler is telling me that the certificate is not a X509 certificate. Thanks ...

Using Aptana Studio with Dojo toolkit in Adobe AIR?

I'm testing a little bit of Adobe AIR - the HTML version in Aptana. And I chose Dojo Toolkit as the JS framework to have. And the generated html-page with dojo ain't working. That I think is a little bit embarrasing. And when I deploy the application it is so big, can you strip away all the pieces of the library that you don't use? Lik...

Tree dataTipFunction tooltip Change position,Flex3

Hi, I am doing dataTipFunction on Tree in Flex3 Air, At present the tooltip hides the present node, i need to reposition the tooltip above the node, how can change the x,y position of the tooltip. Thanks in Advance ...

high performance encryption in adobe air / flash

When looking for encryption related classes/functions in action script / air / flash, I saw the as3crypto project. This one provides a v. nice set of options, but I am a bit concerned on what the numbers presented means when these are used to decrypt a local media file when its selected about to be played. I am looking for security vs...

Disable Adobe Air authentication dialog

I'm building an Adobe Air app that interacts with a third party service using HTTP Basic auth for it's authentication. I'd like to handle the login process completely in my own code. I'm using jQuery to handle the ajax. The issue is that when the user enters bad credentials Air pops up an authentication dialog box before my javascript e...

AIR file is damaged after publish.

I tried to find an answer here but haven't seen anything yet. I've been working on an AIR application with Flash CS4 (AS3) for the last two days. Yesterday when publishing I was able to install the application (or overwrite existing version) without a problem. Now whenever I publish a new AIR file, it constantly tells me it cannot be in...

Chrome Application Shortcuts / Mozilla Prism Installer

I want to deploy a installer package to my customers. My application is basically a website, but I want them to have the optimal experience via. Chrome or Mozilla Prism. I would like to give them an installer (win:msi/exe) that puts an icon on the desktop and launches my app. They may or may not have chrome and Firefox already install...

Flex and source folders in bin-debug

Is there a way to avoid the copy of the empty folders, based on the current source library structure, in bin-debug folder? I'm using Flex 3.2 Thanks ...

Application.application.nativeWindow.activate() problem on Windows

I have an AIR application with a system tray icon. When clicked it shows and activates the app. This is working as expected when the app is hidden (docked), however if I select another application so my app is in the background clicking on the system tray icon does nothing. Oddly I also have a contextual menu on the system tray icon, w...

URLStream & OSX laggy

I'm using URLStream to download 30-80mb files over HTTP. It downloads fine on Windows XP, but is extremely laggy in OSX. Anyone had similar issues? Here's some snippets of the code. function startDownload():void { //opening file var FileWriteStream:FileStream = new FileStream(); FileWriteStream.openAsync(DownloadingFile, ...

How to set basic auth headers for file upload in adobe AIR?

I have an AIR application that uses basic auth to talk with my server. All of my "normal" requests work great, but file uploads are not sending my basic auth headers. var file = new air.File(); //config file selection here... file.upload(new air.URLRequest('http://mycompany.com'), 'data'); I'm using the URLRequestDefaults.setLoginCr...

styling an air application - background image

So I'm trying to give my air application a custom style, I've set the showFlexChrome to false and that's ok it works. now I would like to use an image window I designed in photoshop as the background (because now there is no background in the application). I did the following but it doesn't work <mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http:/...

Does updating to Air 1.5.3 namespace for users to upgrade?

We need to update our Air app to use the Air 1.5.3 namespace to take advantage of it's improved certificate handling. We've specified that namespace application descriptor XML. However, it's not forcing the user to upgrade to 1.5.3 when it's installed like I expected. Instead we're getting this error: This application cannot be ins...

Flex 4 & AIR 2 NativeProcess API: The NativeProcess could not be started

I'm trying to build an application using AIR 2's new NativeProcess API's going from Brent's little video: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/preview-command-line-integration-in-adobe-air-2 but I'm having some issues, namely I get an error every time I try to start my process. I am running OS X 10.5.8 and I want to run diskutil and...

Download link not working in Adobe AIR app.

I wanted to let users browse my site as a desktop application, but didn't have the time to write an application from scratch. SO tried following trick. Created a simple Adobe AIR application with a single page. This page redirects to my website and hence loads the website in the AIR window. Everything is working fine except that the ...

Requirements to create Adobe AIR application

Hi All, i am working with Flex for quite sometime. but i hadn't get any chance to even look at Adobe AIR platform. I am planning to do some personal softwares using AIR. Provided the background that am an absolute zero in AIR, what all should I have in my system apart from Flex builder? And how fast i can learn AIR if I am pretty comfo...

in which programming languages can we develop applications for adobe air ?

In which programming languages can we develop applications for adobe air ? java ? ...

What is the easiest way to programmatically extract structured data from a bunch of web pages?

What is the easiest way to programmatically extract structured data from a bunch of web pages? I am currently using an Adobe AIR program I have written to follow the links on one page and grab a section of data off of the subsequent pages. This actually works fine, and for programmers I think this(or other languages) provides a reasonab...