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getting hardware information with silverlight

Hi i would build an app to take the serial number of hard disk of an other hardware serial number (hard disk, cpu MB). Do you know if this is possible with adobe air, silverlight or other similar technology? Thanks ...

Ways for combining Adobe AIR and Python - Python

Hi folks, I need to use Python because: I have implemented many scripts and libraries using Python in order to solve a certain problem. I would like to use AIR because: I really love the flexibility of building UIs using HTML and Javascript, also implementing beautiful UI designs is actually very easy. Any ideas if I can integrate the...

AS3: URLStream saving files to desktop?

hey guys, i found a few scripts online and combined them to this. I want to download files from the web to my local harddrive. Any idea what i'm doing wrong? var fs:FileStream; var stream:URLStream; var _output:Boolean = false; init(); startDownload('http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/files/u2/purple_lotus_flower.jpg'); function init()...

How can my AIR app communicate with my server?

I want my app to communicate with with server. I want the app to store something like notes and contacts. They can run the app on any system, and get their contacts on any machine by entering their username and password... As you can see authentication security of user's data is important. I am considering using Google App Engine as the...

Adobe AIR Performance

When running my AIR application from the IDE and from the install it sometimes acts really slowly at random. There is really no difference between the setups and i dont have anything extra running in the background. What could be causing this? ...

Secure authentication without SSL?

I am creating a web service for end users which will have a front-end in the form of an Adobe AIR desktop app but users will be able to access their data through the website too. User's data will be synchronized between the server and the local data store. The problem is that I cannot get an SSL certificate. Is there a way to make this m...

Adobe Air2 NativeProcess API with Javascript

Hi, I am trying to launch a python script with the NativeProcess API from Javascript. On the Adobe AIR API Reference for HTML Developers I found a good example for that task, but it does not work. I looked up tons of other examples but still can not find the answer. Here is the example code for the html file: <html> <head> <title...

Adobe Air - Opening a File With Air

So I've created an Air app that saves to a custom file type. I've set up the file associations when I publish the app and, when you double click the file it opens the air app. What are the hooks for me to detect that the app has been opened via a file? Obviously, I need to detect this and then get the app to open the file itself. ...

Do Adobe Air apps support multicore processing?

Do Adobe apps support multiple cores or do they still use single core? So will it make a difference in speed (in performance of the application) if I'm using a Pentium 4 processor (3 ghz) v/s a Dual Core Processor (2.7 ghz) Edit: As mentioned by AndrejaKo in his comment below, I have already asked this question on SuperUser but I was...

flex skin problem

how can i add flex style reference in flex skin like below example whenever i add this code in my flex file in f:style tag it remove all skin styles how i can set SparkChromeWindowedApplicationSkin thankss skinClass:ClassReference("spark.skins.spark.SparkChromeWindowedApplicationSkin"); ...

How To Hear Back From PHP Component Of File.Upload in Flex

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=17_Networking_and_communications_7.html When calling File.upload - how can the server communicate arbitrary information back about the upload? The Event.COMPLETE event that fires after upload only seems to contain a reference to the uploaded file, not any information that the serv...

Socket error - sometimes???

Hey, so - I have this Socket (not XMLSocket, just Socket) client. I also have a custom PHP script on my server, that listens on port X. My client tries to connect to it. Everything works fine, the security and communication, sync and whatever else. But - the Flash Player (AIR runtime actually) shoots an error when trying to connect, bu...

Flex - Air "nativeprocess not supported"

Hi, I want to fix the error when am using "nativeProcess" class it giving error, How to resolve the error.Any air installation failed? ...

flex write runtime errors stacktrace to file

Hi, I am developing a Flex + AIR application. While debugging using Flash Builder sometimes I get runtime errors dialog with 'continue' & 'dismiss all' buttons. But when I release a build(.air) & run the application after installing. Then I don't get the same dialog in the release build. I need to track these types of runtime errors f...

Adobe AIR HTML - How do I dynamically load an image located in app-storage?

I'm working on an AIR application which generates a dynamic client presentation, pulling all necessary data from a PHP framework API. In the process, I download a large number of images and store them locally in the user's app-storage (air.File.applicationStorageDirectory). Side note: the HTML view I am dynamically populating is locat...

canvas.toDataURL() in adobe air

is it possible to use canvas.toDataURL() in adobe air 2.0 ? when i try im getting Error: SECURITY_ERR: DOM Exception 18 ...

Embedding a SWF Video in an AIR 2 HTML App

I've been through the forums for awhile and I can verify that my issue doesn't have to do with transparency or chrome. I have an IFRAME which is in the application sandbox, giving it access to files in app-storage. Dynamic images are loading fine, but my dynamically generated <OBJECT> code that is placed in the DOM is not loading the S...

What is Adobe Air Packager for iphone

Hello all I just read this annoucement about Apple lifting restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines with direct implications for Adobe’s Packager for iPhone. http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/09/great-news-for-developers.html I just want to know what kind of applications can be built using this packager? Can I bui...

Adobe AIR: Windows Application Directory Access

While I realize Adobe discourages use of the application directory for reading/writing, I have been able to successfully write data there on OSX, so long as the user selected the file. However, this same application is giving me trouble in Windows 7. Even a browseForSave() doesn't seem to allow the FileStream to write to the file. Is t...

Getting Icons for File Extensions in Adobe Air

I'm working on an Adobe Air Desktop App ATM. My question is how to get the icon for a given file extension, but without actually loading up a file of such type. I had the idea to just create a blank file for the extension and then delete it once i have the bitmap for its icon, but that seemed like too much trouble and kinda inefficient...