adobe-air

How Adobe AIR application can find out what URL it was downloaded from?

We have an Adobe AIR application which could be possibly downloaded from multiple domains. And when it's run, it should connect back to the site it was downloaded from to get data to show to the user. So far we have a separate application build for each domain with a site URL hardcoded into it. And I wonder is there a way for AIR applic...

In AIR, how do you create a windowed application that's not resizable?

How do I make my AIR app window not resizable? Note, I am not talking about any newly created window, but the actual AIR app's window (WindowedApplication) ...

How can I asynchronously add items to a Native Context Menu in Adobe AIR?

Once a Native Context Menu is invoked, I need it to be populated from a set of remote service calls. Current implementation, however, requires items to be set before opening the menu. Any ideas? Thanks ;) A ...

Adobe AIR update framework -- always creating a new desktop icon on update

I'm using the AIR update framework (ApplicationUpdaterUI), and whenever the user updates the application, a new desktop icon gets created (overwriting any existing desktop icon there). Is there a way to suppress this behaviour, or can someone suggest a workaround? Here's the situation: Our AIR app uses a separate bootstrapping applicat...

Serious Flex databinding issue

Ok so this is kind of urgent at this point. I have a large-scale AIR application that is pigging out left and right, and by massive amounts of trace statements and generating my own stack traces (useful for debugging), I have found that each combo-box is getting it's lookup from the LookupManager class multiple times, equating to about 3...

Custom scrollbars

Hey everyone, I'm working on making an application with adobe air and I have a div that uses overflow-y. In order for the UI to look nice and sexy, what's the best way to replace the ugly default scrollbar with a creation of my own? Thanks EDIT: Everyone remember that this is on adobe air, not on a browser (I know better than to to me...

How to access the command line in adobe air

This might be something simple i just haven't picked up but what is the function where you can send commands directly to the command line (eg: command("ls") ). ...

Using javascript with the twitter API

Hey everyone, I'm interested in making a twitter client using Adobe Air, but I'm kinda stuck right now, as I can't figure out a better way to connect to the twitter REST API since it needs authentication. Currently, the client sends a request to my server (a php script using curl) with the twitter username/password (unencrypted) in GET...

Adobe AIR to execute program

Hello. I would like to press a button from an Adobe AIR application and execute some installed program. For example, I would have a button named "Start Winamp". When this is pressed it should start Winamp.exe directly...I don't want some command line thing executed, I only want an exe to start. Or...is it the same thing ? Please, let me ...

Silverlight vs Adobe Air

Now with Silverlight 3 (offline, out of browser stuff), what are the main differences between the two technologies? ...

Design mode not working for Flex 4 project

I'm trying to port a small Flex 3 AIR project to Flex 4 (Gumbo). Things are working quite fine. I can run and debug the application. But for some reason I can't use the design mode of my WindowedApplication. The head of the MXML file looks like so: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <WindowedApplication xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mx...

Does Adobe AIR for JS support some sort of non-persistent data container?

For a project I need to develop an app in Adobe AIR, I choose for the HTML/Ajax version. For now the project is quite small, and contains a login part, and a details part. What I would like to do is on app launch show login.html, and if that was succesfull show/browse-to details.html . My question is if there is some quick and dirty w...

How do I configure an Air application to reference an external configuration file?

I'd like to reference an external configuration (e.g., *.ini) file that will allow me to set configuration variables for each deployment of my Air application. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any information on the best way to approach this problem. With that being said, does anyone have any advice on how to make this happen...

Best way to show image sequence as a movie in Adobe AIR

I need to show an image sequence as a movie in an Adobe AIR application - i.e. treat lots of images as video frames and show the result. For now I am going to try simply loading them and displaying in a movie clip but this might be too slow. Any advanced ideas how to make it work? Images are located on a hard drive or very fast network s...

Adobe AIR from Flash a big disaster?

Does anyone have any experience with building AIR apps from within Flash CS3? I inherited an AIR app that is being build from within Flash and is doing my head in to get build. First of all, the AIR app doesn't run from with the Flash IDE. There is no document class and when I place a trace statement on the first frame it never actually...

flex 3 inline text wrapping

Hi all, I am trying to implement a functionality like: http://henrytseng.blogspot.com/2009/03/as3-intelligent-text-wrapping-or.html or http://dispatchevent.org/roger/dynamic-text-wrapping-in-actionscript-3/ But the difference is instead of text field i have textarea & instead of display object i have images. Thanks in advance. ...

Decompiling Adobe AIR applications

Are there tools for decompiling Adobe AIR applications? I want to check how do they work on the apps I have made. ...

Read TIFF file in AIR?

Is there any way to read a TIFF file under AIR? Looks like Flash doesn't have native support for TIFF format, any libraries out there? ...

referring a control inside a component in flex

Hi, I am getting problem in accessing the control inside a component. The scenario is I have a datagrid in which I have a component in which I have a textarea. Now by selecting a menu option I need to focus the textarea. Pls help me in referring the textarea. I need to setfocus in that textarea. Thanks in advance. ...

flex edit menu operations on multiple textareas

Hi, I have a grid in which one column is having itemrenderer as textarea. My application is menu controled. Now I want to perform edit operations on the textarea using menu items. Like if I select some text from a textarea in the grid, then I select a menu item "Cut" then it should cut the selected text from the textarea. In this mann...