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How does JavaFX compare to Flash and Flex?

I know Flex pretty good but also started to use Java FX. I am a little bit confused. Java FX seems to focus more on low level drawing operations and animations. Less on creating standard UIs like Flex. So is JavaFX more like Flash than Flex? On the other side JavaFX also supports Swing components as well as data binding, which makes it...

Corner radius in Adobe Air application

Hi, all friends, How can we make rounded corners on the vbox control in the Air application? I am hiding the header and setting transparent to true, but then it does not show me rounded corners on the VBox in the application. I am showing this VBox to the user. Thanks in advance. ...

Shared secret with API in an Ajax Adobe AIR app

I'm pretty new to developing AIR apps, so maybe this is a dumb question, but I can't seem to find any answers from google. Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated. I'm building an AIR app with Ajax using an api that is identical to flickr's Api, with a shared secret key. The problem is that the air installation package contains ...

Example of drag n drop in AIR

Hi, I am looking for a simple example of Drag-n-drop within a webpage(say dragging a image to a tabel cell), in AIR (using AIR api) thanks ...

Air application created with Flex - How do I create a fly-out window to the left/right

I have an Air application with a main window. I would like to have a new window fly out from the side of the main window when the user clicks on a button in the main window. The window that appears needs to display information based on value passed from the main form. How can I achieve this with Flex Builder 3? Target platform: any vers...

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...

C++/Qt vs Adobe AIR

I have to choose a platform for our product. I have to decide between The Qt Framework and Adobe's AIR. I am well versed with Qt as I have worked for the last two years. I looked up at the Adobe's site but all the info about flex, flash, ability to coding in HTML/ActionScript is overwhelming and confusing. I cannot understand the followi...

How does binding in ActionScript work?

As far as I understand, binding to a var in ActionScript is carried out via events which are automatically fired when a var is changed. I have a few questions about this: What happens if the class doesn't explicitly extend EventDispatcher? Is there is some sort of magic that goes on in the compiler which essentially makes the class an ...

Synchronizing databases

Hi I am developing an Adobe AIR application which stores data locally using a SQLite database. At any time, I want the end user to synchronize his/her local data to a central MySQL database. Any tips, advice for getting this right? Performance and stability is the key (besides security ;)) ...

Allow custom text representation of data in MXML

Hello, I have an actionscript class called Dimension, which allows a client to specify a dimension using a value and a unit such as "CM" or "Inches". I want to use an instance of this class as a property in MXML, so a user can write <DimensionView value="2cm"/> How do I make "2cm" an accepted string value for Dimension? I assume I ne...

Connecting lines (while dragging) in Flex/Actionscript

Hi, I have a mx:Canvas element that contains several mx:Panel elements. I want to be able to draw a line connecting two such mx:Panel's in such a way that the line continues to connect the two mx:Panels when one or both get dragged around. It seems like something that should be trivial to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I...

Is it possible with AIR to play a video while it is downloaded

The idea is download a video in parts (from different servers) but starting to play before video file is complete. The issue is that VideoDisplay component doesn't read the video file if it is opened for writing and vice-versa: writing is impossible if VideoDisplay plays the video... ...

Accessing a HTTPS website using a Flex/AIR HTML component?

Is it possible to access remote pages through https when using the HTML component inside a Flex AIR application? I'm looking to build a credit card payment integration into an AIR application and the easy way would be to send the user to a payment service within a browser embedded into the application. ...

How do you access browser information from an AIR application?

I am trying to build an Adobe AIR application that will run on Linux/Mac OS/Windows, which monitors user's browsing history. How can my AIR application find out which browsers are installed? In other words, the list of browsers' history to monitor. Also is there any way to know if a browser is running or not at run time? As for the...

Adobe Flex/AIR: Scrolling a sub-component, not the whole window

I'm developing an application with Adobe Flex and AIR, and I've been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to solve a scrolling issue. The basic structure of my main application window (simplified greatly) is this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxm...

Where can I find information on getting started creating Skins for Flex/AIR?

I don't have any experience with creating Skins, but I have the tools to do it (Fireworks, etc.). I'm used to doing as much as I can with styles, but, I want to break out of the mold and start using Skins more, especially so that the look and feel of my apps can be ported to other platforms. Where do I get started? ...

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. ...

Will web applications replace desktop applications?

Will everything go to the cloud? If so, in which direction? Google-Gears? Flash,AIR,JavaFX? See also: Does desktop development matter? ...

Where can I find the official description of Flex html-template and output folder structure?

I'm looking for an official Adobe page explaining the ins and outs of the various directories used in Flex Builder, namely html-template, bin-debug and bin-release. There's a lot happening in these folder: folders get created and deleted, files get copied around automatically, or not, as seems to be the case with AIR apps. I'm looking f...

How to warn user of CAPS LOCK enabled in Flex/AIR?

Similar to the XP login screen, in Flex 3, how can I display a warning to the user in a textbox that the CAPS LOCK key is enabled? ...