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Air Pagination Issues

I just completed an Adobe AIR app. I built it using html, css, javascript and jQuery. It installs fine, loads fine and everything works except pagination on a popup page. You can install it here: http://www.bendelcorp.com/tools/air-installer.html When you click on the Capacity tab and enter values in each of the three fields (enter dou...

Update a local/client Microsoft Access Database from a server (MS SQL Server2005)

I've got a website that runs on a shared hosting environment, using ASP.net 2.0 (C#) and MS SQL Server 2005. I've recently been asked if I can integrate my website with a piece of third party desktop software that uses the Access runtime as its database (transparent to the end user). Primarily I want to be able to offer users of my web...

Which database to use for flex standalone application?

Hi All, I am planning to develop a standalone application, which infact will be used for personal purposes. So only single user access may be there. I want to develop it in Flex. Just want some opinions from the gurus over here : Whether i should use Flex or AIR (I know only Flex, AIR i need to start learning) Which database i should...

Should I develop desktop games using AIR?

I develop flash based games and currently we supply our games as projector files to our clients. Should I make the jump to AIR? ...

Deleting DisplayObject Instances in Adobe AIR

Hi Everyone, I just have a query on deleting displayobject instance. Let me elaborate on this: I had created a custom component called ‘PanelItem’ (which basically contains a Text Area and a close button in a Panel container) Then in the main.mxml, I had utilized the above custom component as follows: var tempPanel: PanelItem = new Pan...

Flex AIR using Command and Ctrl keyboard events

I am writing an AIR application in Flex. The application needs to be able to handle shortcuts on both Mac and Windows. I have the shortcuts on the Windows side working, but the same application on a Mac doesnt seem to trigger the commandKey property on a Keyboard event when the user is also using another key in combination (ex. command...

Adobe AIR - file locked by air

Hello I am downloading and storing files locally in the app storage domain. For some reason one of the files gets locked by air. I found this by looking at process explorer. If I clear the browser cache the file never gets locked, only if it attempts to download the file but it exists in browser cache does air lock the damn file. Plea...

Displaying images in AIR app

I want to display an image located in the app-storage directory of my AIR application. This image has to be displayed in an html text area where the html text is coming in from a local embedded sqlite database. When I put in the following code: imageTest.htmlText = '<img src="app-storage:/demo.jpg" border="0" />'; nothing is displaye...

A way to create command line program with Air 2?

Is there any way to create an Air 2 program that runs just in the command line? (no windows, no gui, etc) Something similar to Windows Ping program. It would accept arguments and then output std out. ...

AIR HTML control setFocus

Hello, I have an application that sometimes has a HTML control. If I remove the html control and click outside the app and then back on again. I get an error. TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at mx.core::FlexHTMLLoader/setFocus()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\airframewo...

ArgumentError: Error #1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid.

I have an air application that loads an external swf when prompted by the user. In the external swf, I have a class that loads all the necessary fonts for that particular swf. When my air application attempts to load the swf I get ArgumentError: Error #1508: The value specified for argument font is invalid. Any ideas? Thanks. ...

AIR: NativeWindow startMove only vertical?

Hi guys, is it possible to use the startMove Method in AS3 and limit the movement only to the y-axis? I want my window only to be dragable vertically. Thank you for your tips. ...

AIR: considering the MacOSX menubar?

Hello, i wonder how i can set the screenBounds of my App to regard the MacOSX Menubar on top of the screen and the Dock. If i'm using the normal screenBounds method in AS3, the screenBounds values always get the REAL screenBounds (0,0 and total width of the screen)...however i would like to just get the available space on the desktop ...

Prevent webkit HTML from going fullscreen

Hello, im working on a flex / air kiosk application, i want to be able to ALWAYS show a banner in one portion of my screen, in the other portion i have an air html component so the user can browse the web. The problem is this: if a user goes to youtube.com he will be able to go fullscreen and the video will prevent my "allways visible" ...

Do I need a local web service to connect to database for Silverlight OOB?

I've done some cursory reading on Silverlight and data access. From what I can tell, I'll need a web service to hook up a Silverlight application to a database while it's running in browser. Is this true when it goes OOB? Or is there another method that should be used then? Some background: We have a .Net 2.0 Winforms application. ...

Capturing system information in AIR apps

Hi, could you tell me plz - is it possible (and how if yes) to capture following information in AIR application: Operation System Laptop model and vendor (if laptop) Installed applications with versions thanks a lot!! ...

How do I record video to a local disk in AIR?

I'm trying to record a webcam's video and audio to a FLV file stored on the users local hard disk. I have a version of this code working which uses NetConnection and NetStream to stream the video over a network to a FMS (Red5) server, but I'd like to be able to store the video locally for low bandwidth/flaky network situations. I'm usi...

Capturing Web Pages in Adobe AIR

i am wanting to do a note taking application alot of times, i will want to capture entire/portions of web pages. can i do it with adobe air? can it integrate with browsers like firefox? if not i will use the browser integrated with AIR. but how can i capture whats on the browser control? it shld be able to capture flash and entire/scrol...

PHP Session with Adobe Air application?

I don't have a lot of experience with either PHP or Adobe AIR. I'm just researching at the moment. I am considering creating some kind of internal AIR app. It would basically be a web chat interface that can be minimized to the tray, with the ability to notify users of new messages, etc. In other words, a pretty basic web chat applicatio...

Maintaining an Adobe Air Desktop Application with an XML Document

i am going to be utilizing a flash/jquery powered gallery on a webpage that is maintained and updated with an xml document. the xml data is used to add and sort images into a grid of small thumbnail images. i will customize this component so that when the user rolls over a thumbnail it will trigger jquery to replace a div using hide/show...