This question is specific to Adobe AIR ActionScript/Flash applications. I've spend quite some time researching this and kept finding discussions about either the Flash Player security model when running in the browser, where issues with SWF loading can be mitigated in various ways (loading from the same domain, using a crossdomain.xml fi...
Is there any way to set application's proxy server setting in adobe air overriding the system settings? ...
i have a app.air file which has the files with different timestamp inside it, when i install it, it expands the .air file and reset all the timestamp of its files. is there a way to install the application and NOT change the timestamp? preferably thru a command line way too. Also, what exactly does the installation process do to the .a...
I'm doing some calculation with numbers and would like to only print an integer (the number without the decimals). I thought that the toFixed() method of the Number class would do the trick, and it does most of the time. But quite frequently strange values are returned. Here are 2 examples: Number(0.002).toFixed(0) returns "0." while ...
Hi, I have an app built in flex 3.2, and would like to start using some spark components within that same app. Are there any pitfalls to look out for. Is it possible to use the old 3.2 components in the same app or Will I have to rebuild them. Would like to get the heads up from anyone that has done the same, before I make the plunge. ...
I was wondering if an AIR application can find out what OS it's running on, e.g. Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS, etc. Also, is there a way for it to find out the current OS user name? Thanks. ...
I just completed an Adobe AIR app. I built it using html, css, javascript and jQuery. It installs fine, loads fine and everything works except pagination on a popup page. You can install it here: http://www.bendelcorp.com/tools/air-installer.html When you click on the Capacity tab and enter values in each of the three fields (enter dou...
I am trying to load and parse html in adobe air. The main purpose being to extract title, meta tags and links. I have been trying the HTMLLoader but I get all sort of errors, mainly javascript uncaught exceptions. I also tried to load the html content directly (using URLLoader) and push the text into HTMLLoader (using loadString(...)) b...
I am trying to develop an AIR app, and I use $.get in some cases to obtain necessary data from the server. However, any AJAX request made with jQuery won't trigger my error callbacks. I currently have something very simple (I kept it as simple as possible to make sure it wasn't any of my code that was causing the problem): $.ajaxSetup({...
I'm building a small JavaScript application in Adobe AIR and I'm looking for some general advice for automated unit testing. I'd like to be able to run a suite of unit tests from the shell (maybe from a Makefile or similar). My initial thought was to use something lightweight like jsUnity to run test scripts from within Rhino. I could ...
Hi All, I am planning to develop a standalone application, which infact will be used for personal purposes. So only single user access may be there. I want to develop it in Flex. Just want some opinions from the gurus over here : Whether i should use Flex or AIR (I know only Flex, AIR i need to start learning) Which database i should...
Is it possible in an air application to start a download, pause it and after that resume it? I want to download very big files (1-3Gb) and I need to be sure if the connection is interrupted, then the next time the user tries to download the file it's start from the last position. Any ideas and source code samples would be appreciated...
Hello guys, I'm triying to get a folder size by doing: var FolderFile:File = new File("file:///SomePath/Folder"); var FolderSize: FolderFile.size; But this gives me a value of 0, how can I get the folder size? is there anyway to do this? Tranks ...
I develop flash based games and currently we supply our games as projector files to our clients. Should I make the jump to AIR? ...
Hi I'm building an as3 only web application and want to be able to include external html content within a flash 'window'. In AIR there is the flash.html.HTMLLoader class which makes this possible. Can anyone point to an example of this being done in a flash as opposed to AIR application? ...
I am writing an AIR application in Flex. The application needs to be able to handle shortcuts on both Mac and Windows. I have the shortcuts on the Windows side working, but the same application on a Mac doesnt seem to trigger the commandKey property on a Keyboard event when the user is also using another key in combination (ex. command...
I want to display an image located in the app-storage directory of my AIR application. This image has to be displayed in an html text area where the html text is coming in from a local embedded sqlite database. When I put in the following code: imageTest.htmlText = '<img src="app-storage:/demo.jpg" border="0" />'; nothing is displaye...
I've been having trouble exporting Adobe Flex using Adobe Air. I can't find the runnable application Air, and so when I export something to be opened in air it can't be opened. I'm on a Mac Powerbook G4 running OS 10.5.8. Help? ...
Hello, I have an application that sometimes has a HTML control. If I remove the html control and click outside the app and then back on again. I get an error. TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at mx.core::FlexHTMLLoader/setFocus()[C:\autobuild\3.5.0\frameworks\projects\airframewo...
There are a lot of questions on S.O. about JavaFX vs. Silverlight vs. AIR, and now Prism is going to be released. These are four different technologies with a similar goal. I thought we could gather the main points -pros and cons- to consider one or the other in a community wiki question. Try to keep the flaming level at its lowest pos...