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Maybe its just my contrarian nature resisting stack overflow, but I think I’m going to kick it old school for the time being and stick to posting my stupid programming questions and pathetic hacks on my own personal blog. After all I’ve got like 3 readers and I don’t work in some swank NYC development [...]
Warning Nerd Post–disregard if you’re not an AIRhead. I’ve been working on a little AIR app and had a helluva time trying to get a NativeMenuItem keyboard shortcut set up for “Save As” functionality. The thing is I wasn’t trying to do anything difficult. I was setting the keyboardEquivalent to lower case “s” and then [...]
Here is a ScrollBar component class. The class takes a movieClip as a parameter and then attach the scrollbar to it. Following is the snapshot of same
You can download the sources from here
Here is a ScrollBar component class. The class takes a movieClip as a parameter and then attach the scrollbar to it. Following is the snapshot of same
You can download the sources from here
“Cosmo” is in the nightly builds of Flex SDK! The new AIR 1.5 contains:
Encrypted Local / SQLite databases
Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM
Integration with Flash Player 10
New Text engine
Updated Saffron engine for font rendering
Custom Filters and Effects
3D Effects
Typed Arrays updated
Dynamic video streaming
More about it on Mike Chambers blog.
This is just a quick post to update you on the progress of the Wordpress comment moderation application that I am building. It is coming along very nicely, and I should have a beta early next week. Unfortunately I spent a full day trying to get my Wordpress installation back up and running after a [...]
Today I've posted on Comtaste's blog how to monitor the connection against TCP/IP socket endpoints in AIR using JavaScript. Adobe AIR gives you the ability to use socket connections for push-model connectivity. In this context it can be necessary to have to connect to a specific port of a server. A classic scenario is the one in which the application has to send an email using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). This text protocol initiates a TCP connection to the server’s port 25.
For a this application is crucial to check and monitor the the connection against TCP/IP socket endpoints.
The AIR service monitor framework can be used for this purposes. The SocketMonitor class, a subclass of the ServiceMonitor, is used to detect connectivity. The following code snippet checks the availability of the connection to a socket server running on localhost over port 25 and, if the trial has been successful, it connects to the socket server
AIR has all the makings to support the perfect lightweight, cross-platform screen capture application. After all, as the screencast immediately below shows, you can copy all the pixels on the display list that you want and save them to the file system or upload them to the interweb node of your liking.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.brooksandrus.com/media/mediaplayer.swf" width="640" [...]
Day 2 of the Adobe RIA Developer Summit here in Bangalore is about to start. Yesterday was pretty incredible. A crowd of close to 400 packed the hall from 9am until after 6pm, and listened to keynotes and sessions in two tracks. Michele Turner and I presented the opening keynote, and I presented an afternoon session on Flex data connectivity, talking about HTTP, Web Services, Flash Remoting, Messaging, and Data Services. Other sessions have covered everything from getting started to with Flex to best practices to the Flex event model to creating components to working with video and more. The audience here is highly technical, and the questions and feedback have been constant and relevant and somewhat intense. Silicon India posted a story yesterday.
Adobe has just announced a press release indicating we've had over 25,000,0000 installs since February 2008:
Adobe Systems Incorporatedtoday reported that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe® AIR™ in the first six months since its release. Numerous Fortune 500 companies, in addition to start-ups across a variety of industries, have deployed hundreds of AIR applications to engage with customers, partners, and employees in new and compelling ways.
Twhirl's CEO just claimed that they have over 500,000 installs of their AIR client.
This is an amazing result considering the nature of AIR, a desktop runtime !
Piotr Walczyszyn is the newest member of the Adobe Platform Evangelism team. Piotr lives in Poland, and has started blogging.
The Date class constructor is documented with the following parameters in Adobe Docs
Date(yearOrTimevalue:Object, month:Number, date:Number = 1, hour:Number = 0, minute:Number = 0, second:Number = 0, millisecond:Number = 0)
However today i just tried out and found that there is also a undocumented calling of Date constructor with a Date in a string format. I have [...]
The Date class constructor is documented with the following parameters in Adobe Docs
Date(yearOrTimevalue:Object, month:Number, date:Number = 1, hour:Number = 0, minute:Number = 0, second:Number = 0, millisecond:Number = 0)
However today i just tried out and found that there is also a undocumented calling of Date constructor with a Date in a string format. I have [...]
Following is the code for finding and changing BackGround color of all the Input textfields in a perticular scope
//—- Import classes ———-
import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldType;
//——— initialize variables —-
var temp:Array;
trace(this.numChildren)
for(var k:int=0;k < this.numChildren;k++){
var child:* = this.getChildAt(k);
if(getQualifiedClassName(child) == “flash.text::TextField”){
var childIns:TextField = child as TextField;
if(childIns.type == TextFieldType.INPUT){
changeBGColor(childIns);
}
}
}
//—- function to change BG color of input boxes ——
function changeBGColor(textFieldObj:TextField){
textFieldObj.background = [...]
Following is the code for finding and changing BackGround color of all the Input textfields in a perticular scope
//—- Import classes ———-
import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.text.TextFieldType;
//——— initialize variables —-
var temp:Array;
trace(this.numChildren)
for(var k:int=0;k < this.numChildren;k++){
var child:* = this.getChildAt(k);
if(getQualifiedClassName(child) == “flash.text::TextField”){
var childIns:TextField = child as TextField;
if(childIns.type == TextFieldType.INPUT){
changeBGColor(childIns);
}
}
}
//—- function to change BG color of input boxes ——
function changeBGColor(textFieldObj:TextField){
textFieldObj.background = [...]
I’ve just discovered a way to generate a blank dialogue box in Flash CS3. This was on a PC, I’ve not tested the Mac version yet. You’ll need to have the Adobe AIR Update for Flash CS3 Professional installed.
Just follow these step-by-step instructions …
Open Flash CS3.
Create a new Flash File (Adobe AIR).
Save the file as [...]
Areez Gangji has compiled a list of Flex and AIR apps, and has posted his Top 10 Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students. The list includes some nice examples that I had not seen before.
Using the NativeMenu and NativeMenuItem classes supported by Adobe AIR APIs is pretty easy to create native menu.
But one cool thing very useful in a desktop application that works with local files is a Open Recent Files menu item features. This menu item acts like a history list of opened or created file.
The NativeMenuItem class has the data property that allows to create a reference to an Object for a menu item. You can use it to create a menu item that points to a file on local system as shown in the following code:
I wanted to give everyone a quick sneak peak of something I am working, that I should be releasing next week. As you can tell by the footer on this page, this blog is powered by Wordpress. I have found Wordpress to be one the best, most feature rich, well coded, and well designed publishing [...]
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