[This is a community Wiki so do not bother voting it down if it seems like a poll question. It is.] Will Adobe be able to translate its success in Flash Penetration (although also questionable, see my post here) to Adobe AIR? Is Adobe AIR the "next big thing" in a desktop platform, just another player (along with what else?), or will it...
I'm thinking of choosing Adobe AIR as the client-side implementation technology for an upcoming project. (The previous choice was C# and WPF, but I've been really impressed with Flash/Flex/AIR lately.) But one of the most important features of my product will be its plugin architecture, allowing third party developers to extend the func...
I'm curious if through AIR you could access your motherboard pc speaker? It's for an Alarm Type of program and would like pitch control so more than a simple beep. Can this be accomplished through AIR? Or if not in any web-based framework for that matter? Seems a bit tricky so I'd love to know if anyone has a solution. Thanks! ...
Hi All, I need to write a desktop application that can run on Mac (Windows and Linux soon) that can get data from MySQL and allow users to transfer files from their desktop to the server. I know I can write a desktop app in AIR, how would Fireworks play into this? Can AIR connect to MySQL? Can one FTP files with AIR? On a second not...
I'm trying to add a feature to my AIR app that can listen for (configurable) global keyboard events even when the app is minimized. Ex: CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-F12 to grab a screenshot. I can't find any way to register a keyboard hook, and listening for keyboard events only captures them when the app has focus. Suggestions? ...
Similar to the XP login screen, in Flex 3, how can I display a warning to the user in a textbox that the CAPS LOCK key is enabled? ...
I may want to create a RIA but am wondering, whether Adobe AIR or Titanium is the way to go. Do you think the open source version will last longer? Will it be better in anyway? Merry Christmas! ...
My co-worker posted a question on his blog . He is referring to rendering an MPEG-4 stream in adobe air. He wants to know basically two things. Are there any technical articles floating around that... Describe how AIR renders. Describes a technique for painting on an AIR surface in a way that doesn't effect AIR per...
I need to run a native program and retrieve the output in an Adobe AIR client side only application. I know that AIR does not allow access to native applications, so what is the best way to achieve this? I came across this solution which works on Windows, but I need something that works on Mac as well. I'd rather not have two separate so...
Is there a way to make an Adobe AIR app fit screen(maximize) by itself when it's launched? ...
I am starting to develop a new air/html/ajax application today and for some reason my trace() output is not being printed to the console window anymore. Plus, I am also not getting any error messages printed for syntax errors or runtime errors. I tried this on a different machine and there was no problem, so it must have been something w...
When I download a file using URLStream and write to a file using FileStream, where else do the file gets cached? It definitely gets cached somewhere, as the second time I try to download the same file, it comes down like a lighting.. ...
Hi, I am about to deliver an Adobe AIR app to a customer. But it's my first delivery of any sort, i.e. I have no experience whatsoever with licensing etc. Users of this app may or may not be online, so can't count on that. In fact it's 99% sure that they will be offline. Nor do I expect them to very tech-savvy, who will spend enough t...
Hi folks, I want to use SAPI Text-To-Speech engine from my ActionScript or Air application. is this possible ? what are the other alternatives ? ...
There is a lot of interest and hype on Adobe Air lately. Is it deserving of this and are there any worthy competitors to Adobe in this space? The only Adobe Air application I have used is TweetDeck .. while I am not loving it, that may be a more a UI design/usability issue. ...
I'm currently building a prototype AIR application for work. It allows our clients to download and work with their data and then synchronise with the server at some later time. Pretty standard stuff. I'm an experienced web developer and so I have been fairly successful at getting this app into a reasonable state for demonstration, but...
As a side project, for "fun," I'm rewriting my blog and CMS in Flex and AIR respectively, and while I'm pretty well satisfied with the design thus far, the one major pain point remains working with (which is to say performing CRUD operations on) legacy HTML content, and rendering that HTML content decently in both the browser and the Fla...
I'm looking for a simple, clean and memory-efficient way to create and apply a reflection effect (you know the one, popularized by the famed iPhone UI) to the bitmap images I've loaded into a Flex app at runtime. The source images will be of varying types (JPGs, PNGs, etc.), but an acceptable solution can assume each image is already lo...
What exactly is Adobe Air? I've seen a lot of people talking about it and I've even seen applications for it but I'm still not entirely sure what makes it unique or how it is different from other languages. Can someone please give me the concise version from a programmer's point of view? Edit: I wasn't familiar with Flex so I found this...
What is the best way to skin/theme an AIR application. For example, I want to use a dark/blackish theme instead (similar to Tour de Flex) instead of the default gray one. ...