adobe-air

how to work with air adobe

Hi friends, I have aptana studio and install the air adobe 2.0 beta version. I have export a sample program with the extension of air.. But i dont know how to instal it to show as a windows application.. My requirement is :: I want to show up a html page as a windows application. Am i going in the right path. Please help me how to proc...

SSI or PHP include functionality in Adobe Air?

I don't quite understand how you're supposed to develop Adobe Air AJAX apps without repeating the boilerplate at the top of every single HTML page. There's the main entry page of the application, but say I want a subpage that has all the same JS and CSS as the main page. How can I do that without copying and pasting the first 50 lines o...

Flex application packaged in AIR doesn't show it's window

I have a Flex application that builds and runs from Eclipse without any problems. I've created an Ant build based on the sample provided by Adobe and builds the application and packages it up into an AIR application. No errors occur during the build process and an AIR file is created. The problem is that when I install the AIR applicati...

Cross-platform JS access to local filesystem via plugin?

I have a javascript photo-organizer built on the YUI JS libs which can organize photos from many sites via REST api. I want to know if I can resuse any of this code to organize photos on the local filesystem. I need a cross-browser (i.e. PC/Mac) solution to the following (in order of increasing privilege): persistent file access to...

Value undefined does not allow function calls

I am using aptana + adobe Air 2.0, i have created a page.. while executing the page, its giving the following error.. TypeError: Value undefined does not allow function calls. I have tried to copy a small content into the clip board.. code is below holdtext.innerText = getID.id; Copied = holdtext.createTextRange(); Copied.execCommand(...

Run Command prompt commands through flex.

Can we run command prompt commands (like copy, rename etc) from an AIR or flex application? I thought of creating a bat file and running it using fscommand, but that does`nt serve my purpose. ...

Flex: detecting user idle?

How can I tell when a user has been idle for say 5 minutes on my Flex app? When I say "idle" I mean the user has not interacted with the application at all. Thanks!! ...

list service and views service in sharepoint.

in sharepoint 2007, i have a list and i have created some views and used user based filtering on the items of the list in the views. some people are developing an adobe air app and accessing lists using webservice from an external adobe air app that shows a grid view of the lists in adobe air app ( using Lists Service http:///_vti_bi...

starting an Adobe AIR application multiple times

Adobe air runtime prevents more than one instance of an air application to be started at the same time. Is it safe to circumvent this restriction by arbitrarily changing the publisher ID? Does anyone know if Adobe plans to allow multiple concurrent instances in Air 2.0? ...

Is there a desktop (AIR) app for adobe Buzzword?

Awhile ago i read about adobe coming out with an AIR app for Buzzword. I searched google and the most recent updates I can find about it are all the way back in 2008, which is REALLY strange, and I can't find a download ANYWHERE. Does anyone know what happened? Is there an AIR app for Buzzword? Or... ? ...

Setting a focus with a blinking cursor on a textinput control in Adobe Air

How to set focus with blinking cursor on a textinput control in Adobe Air? ...

Pure Actionscript 3 Adobe Air Application main class constructor not being called

I'm writing an Air application using only Actionscript, and Flex3 SDK as the compiler. Everything compiles and runs fine under adl, but when the final air file is built and installed, the main class is never initialized. For instance: package { import flash.display.Sprite; public class main extends Sprite { public functi...

Access top window from Iframe in Adobe Air

Hello, everyone! I have some problems with Adobe Air. My application has rather complicated architecture: the main html window loads iframe with references to javascripts (e.g. DWRengine.js, jquery.js, main.js and so on). It's done to avoid Air's javascript restrictions on 'eval' function, which is widely used in my scripts and in DWR t...

Uninstall options for an AIR application

I have been looking for a way to include the users app storage data to be removed along with the application when uninstalled in Windows. I am not sure why this data isn't removed along with the application as in come cases there could be quite a lot of data in there that will never get removed. Also if a user is uninstalling in order ...

Plain text from PDF using Air/ActionScript

Is there a way to extract plain text from a PDF file using ActionScript? If not, can you give me some hints on how it is implemented elsewhere? ...

Can I send commands to operative system from Adobe AIR Desktop Application?

In Python there is a function: os.system(command) that runs the command passed by parameter in the command line, there is something similar in AS3 (or MXML) running an Adobe AIR Desktop Application? ...

Embedding fonts into Adobe AIR application

Hello, everyone! Here's another issue with HTML-based Adobe Air application I am developing at the moment. The question is whether I can embed custom font into my application. If it is possible, then, how do I do this? I have my custom font file in app:/fonts directory, Firefox displays text correctly using this font when I'm viewing...

Unmounting removable drive in AIR 2 beta

Hello, I ran into a huge problem with my AIR project today (I'm using new AIR 2 beta SDK). Is it possible at all to unmount a flash drive from inside the AIR app on Mac OS X? I can't find any solutions. Thanks! ...

Flex-AIR: how to handle failure to update?

OK my flex app checks for a file on the internet (update.xml) which contains the most recent version number and a location on where to download the update, if the most recent version number is not the version of the current app, then the app auto-updates using the file at the location listed in the (update.xml) file. If my app fails to ...

Programmatically detecting between Adobe Air and Adobe Flex in ActionScript 3.0

I have some shared code between an Adobe AIR App and an Adobe Flex App. On one line of this code, the program must behave differently depending on if it is running within the Air runtime, or the Flex runtime. How can I programmatically detect the difference? ...