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How can I build an Adobe Air project with Maven?

Has anyone successfully built an Adobe Air application with Maven? If so, what are the steps to get it working? I have been trying to use flex-mojos to build an Air applications. When I set the packaging type to "aswf", as suggested in the DashboardSamplePom, Maven complains that aswf is an unknown packaging type. I also found their ...

Programmatically launching standalone Adobe flashplayer on Linux/X11

The standalone flashplayer takes no arguments other than a .swf file when you launch it from the command line. I need the player to go full screen, no window borders and such. This can be accomplished by hitting ctrl+f once the program has started. I want to do this programmatically as I need it to launch into full screen without any hum...

Adobe Air and .NET

Hi, I Adobe Air completly JavaScript? Can't I use a .NET language like VB.NET or C#.NET? Thanks ...

Flex development on Linux, what's a good free environment?

Hi, I would like to develop Adobe Flex applications using Linux and a free environment. I'd prefer a free as in freedom alternative, but as in beer would work as well. ;-) Are any of you developing Adobe Flex rich internet applications using such an environment? Or should I face the "facts" that Flex Builder is an essential tool for Fl...

Can someone post a well formed crossdomain.xml sample?

I've been reading that Adobe has made crossdomain.xml stricter in flash 9-10 and I'm wondering of someone can paste me a copy of one that they know works. Having some trouble finding a recent sample on Adobe's site. ...

Can OpenLaszlo apps access AIR APIs?

It seems OpenLaszlo can run on AIR. What's less obvious is whether OpenLaszlo apps can use the AIR-specific APIs, like file system access. If so, how exactly is this done? ...

Programmatically Printing in Adobe Reader 9 using .NET Interop

I am using VB.Net WinForms. I would like to call the Adobe Reader 9 ActiveX control to print some PDFs. I have added the ActiveX control to the VS toolbox (the dll is AcroPDF.dll, the COM name "Adobe PDF Reader". After some experiment the following code works. Dim files As String() = Directory.GetFiles(TextBoxPath.Text, "*.pdf", Sear...

Reading collections of extended elements in an RSS feed with Universal Feed Parser

Is there any way to read a collection of extension elements with Universal Feed Parser? This is just a short snippet from Kuler RSS feed: <channel> <item> <!-- snip: regular RSS elements --> <kuler:themeItem> <kuler:themeID>123456</kuler:themeID> <!-- snip --> <kuler:themeSwatches> <kuler:swatch> ...

How to keep track of application version when compiling using Adobe Flex 3?

How to monitor version in swf file when we compile a swf file in Adobe Flex file? ...

Detect whether adobe reader is installed using VB code

hi i want to detect whether adobe reader is installed using VB6. Also if detected that its not installed what would be the best solution. ...

How do I rewrite Adobe Photoshop plugins for Adobe Lightroom?

Are Adobe's plugin architectures for Photoshop and Lightroom related in any way? If I have source code for a plugin, that works with PS 3.0-CS3 as well as PS Elements 6.0 can I use it with Lightroom directly? If not, what would I have to modify? ...

Adobe Air Retrieving Server URL at Runtime

Hello, I'm not familiar with Adobe Air and I am uploading a file to a server. For simple testing purposes I have hard coded an upload URL (Specifically a url to a upload directory on the server to which the amf channels point) into the code. Is there a way in adobe air to get this server url at run time? Or does the question not make a...

Problems with itemRollOver and itemRollOut events on List component

I have set the itemRollOver and itemRollOut event listeners on a List component, but whenever I roll the mouse over a list item, both the over and out events of the same list item fire in succession right after each other. My list uses a custom itemRenderer. Any ideas why this might be? The Adobe documentation doesn't provide much insig...

Programatically Break Apart a PDF created by a scanner into separate PDF documents

I have PDF documents from a scanner. This PDF contain forms filled out and signed by staff for a days work. I want to place a bar code or standard area for OCR text on every form type so the batch scan can be programatically broken apart into separate PDF document based on form type. I would like to do this in Microsoft .net 2.0 I c...

Adobe Air RSS/ATOM Aggregate Reader

Any one using any cool Air App that can either hook into Google Reader and most important add RSS/ATOM feeds? I tried ReadAir - but it didn't work well. ...

Is it possible to restrict the number of copies which can be printed from a PDF?

Hi, I have an application where a user can download a PDF for printing. I want to be able to resrict the number of copies that can be printed. Is it possible to digitally sign/restrict a PDF in this way? Regards ...

Trouble with ActionScript 3, not working, and i have no idea why, flash CS4

Hello I'm very new to ActionScript 3, and I've followed this toturial on adobe TV. But I don't get it to work. The thing is that I want the box to move left/right when I click the buttons, but nothing happens. You can download the .fla file here: http://www.habitats.no/files/AC3.zip Thanks. ...

What has made Adobe Flex more “acceptable” than its predecessors?

I have been building enterprise software for the last 10 years. In this time we have seen enterprise applications move from client server to thin clients. We have also seen the move to hosted solutions, albeit under a few names (asp, SaaS, cloud computing). With all these changes the impetuous has been mainly from driven from the IT d...

Does flash support MP3 audio format natively?

I was of the idea that flash (more specifically Adobe's flash player browser plugin) probably uses some installed MP3 codecs (on the client machine) using OS APIs. I heard someone say that Flash supports MP3 natively. is that true? I guess flash has it's own video and audio format. (FLV and something similar for audio). This question ...

Where to get User Interface Components as seen in Acrobat, Photoshop etc

Does anyone know if you can obtain the following user interface components as seen in various adobe products for use in ones own product? Treeview (Adobe Acrobat) Collapsable Toolbars (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator) ...