I'm trying to get two different apps to communicate through a file. I would like app 1 to append some text to a file, and app 2 to notice, and read the new bytes (not the whole file). There is an event, ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, that is supposed to fire when new data is available on a FileStream, but it only fires when I first open the f...
I am currently devising 3 database desktop applications for different users in a manufacturing company (one for the accounting department, sales department, production department). All applications have different functions but they should be able to access the data of the other department to reflect business transactions. What is the bes...
All AIR installation files must be digitally signed (http://help.adobe.com/...). Is there a way for an AIR application to access this signature information at runtime? Say, I'm distributing client-side component of a client-server application, and this client component is implemented using AIR, and I want to prevent* modified copies of ...
How do you download multiple images from a server and store them on in the application directory in Flash IDE , Adobe AIR? Specifically, I am using AMFPHP to pull the paths out of a DB and download them to the application directory. ...
I'm using Adobe Air 1.5 with Safari 4.0.3 on Mac OS Snow Leopard. When the browser attempts to download the Air file, binary code is displayed in the browser instead of downloading the Air application. Firefox has no problems downloading this Air application for either the Mac or the PC. Also safari on windows correctly downloads the bin...
Hey, this is weird: I created a mx:List and using an mx:Canvas with some Items as ItemRenderer. Everything works fine, the List is displayed correctly. Now I set dragEnabled="true", dropEnabled="true" and dragMoveEnabled="true" to archive the ability to reorder my Items via Drag and Drop. But as soon as I start to Drag an Item the whole...
Hi, I'm planning to do a little project to expand my knowledge in programming. The application I'm trying to build is an Internet Cafe Manager (I Know there are a lot software out there that is similar to what I'm building.). I had chosen this project since it involves connecting to a network, displaying data and time, and has a client ...
Hi , I have an air application that loads a swf ( built in flex ) , this swf loads moduls and basicaly my air application is a testing environment for this swf . when i run it in flex environment ( eclipse ) it runs fine , when i run it from my programs ( as an air program ) it gets stuck , what i was thinking is that it has to do with...
I have the following question regarding Flex/AIR data grids: Can I access the value of a var of one aggregated object as a dataField of a column of the DataGrid? What I would like to have is: public class A { public var id:String; } public class B { public var a:A; public var value:uint; } <mx:DataGrid...
I am loading css file in Flex 3 AIR application. While reading the style name, I am lowercase version of it (i.e, .NewFontStyle is converted to .newfontstyle) how to get name as mentioned in css file. my code: private var prefsCSS:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet(); private function ReadStylesCSS():void { fileStream.open(appStorageDi...
Hi all, I am devloping an editor with spell check feature in Flex + AIR using Sqlite as an embedded database. In database I have a table with the words. The table contains lacs of words. I have written the code to search for the word in table. I have used the sync method for all this. This pauses my application while searching. I would...
How do I generate a self-signed certificate to sign an adobe AIR app? I'm using the maven flexmojos plugin. I've followed an openssl tutorial to generate a .p12, but now the mvn plugin /adt compiler is telling me that the certificate is not a X509 certificate. Thanks ...
What Approach can you use to Connect Adobe Air Application to a Local Network? Examples of function is send a message to other computer that is connected to a network, sending files or viewing their desktop. Thanks! ...
Hi all, I have a custom component with textbox & a poup button as <mx:HBox> <mx:Text id="source" height="100%" width="40%" data="my text" /> <mx:VBox backgroundAlpha="0" height="100%" borderThickness="0"> <mx:PopUpButton enabled="true" id="editButton" width="40" icon="@Embed('assets/images/Legends/editIcon.png')" ...
Hi All I have a problem with an AdvancedDataGrid; i want the fields Actual and Estimate to change with the timer function but it doesn't work. It works only by refreshing all the adg with the collapse of the tree structure. I want that if the tree is "exploded" only actual and estimate fields refresh. Sorry for my uncorrect english. Here...
I'm making a Flash app in Flash 10 and ActionScript 2.0 and need support for calling an EXE with some params and minimizing/close the application. Neither Adobe AIR nor Zinc don't seem to support some code I made and I'm looking for a very simple alternative? Does anyone know about any? ...
How to create multiple processes in Adobe Air program? Docs? Tuts? Algorithms? (for ex I have some design logic and some services client logic i want to run them in separate processes) (Air 2.0 is ok for me) ...
Hi, I am doing dataTipFunction on Tree in Flex3 Air, At present the tooltip hides the present node, i need to reposition the tooltip above the node, how can change the x,y position of the tooltip. Thanks in Advance ...
Hi, How can I get a standalone Adobe Air/Flex application to restart itself? It doesn't work with the suggested solution on: http://www.colettas.org/?p=267. Any help would be great, Thanks. ...
When looking for encryption related classes/functions in action script / air / flash, I saw the as3crypto project. This one provides a v. nice set of options, but I am a bit concerned on what the numbers presented means when these are used to decrypt a local media file when its selected about to be played. I am looking for security vs...