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AIR

• AIR, AS3, Flash

  SQLConnection mode?

  05.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In an AIR app, once you have opened an SQLConnection, is there any way of knowing what kind of connection this is?
  By which I mean, whether open() or openAsync() were used, and which of the SQLMode constants were used as the second argument to whichever argument was used?
  If not … why not?? I [...]

• AIR, AS3, Flash

  tamarin, ecmascript4, as3, webkit and air

  04.22.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I’ve been skimming through the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers pocket book, and toying with the idea of creating the idea of an HTML/JS based application. Looking at the actual code examples kind of put me off though. JavaScript is so primitive - no classes, no typed variables. I remember the hoops you need to [...]

• AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex

  going to webdu! but which sessions to see … ?

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  C4, the company I work for, has just stumped up the cash for a ticket for me to go to WebDU.
  It’s organised into four tracks (Flash/Flex, RIA/AIR/JS, Coldfusion and general web stuff). Apart from the Coldfusion track, which I have no interest in, I’ll be checking out stuff from all of them … I think [...]

• 3d, AIR, AS3, Flash

  grappling with 3d graphs: terrain in papervision

  04.10.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Recently, I airily told my colleagues that building a 3D graph in Flash would be no trouble at all. I knew Papervision was capable of it, and I’d be fine, I thought.
  An overconfident assumption, it turns out. While the API docs for Great White are available, a lot of methods are uncommented, assuming you [...]

• AIR, Flash

  shu air wrapper

  04.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  A colleague of mine at C4 just pointed out the “Shu Player” to me.
  It’s third-party wrapper software that packages up AIR apps so they become standalone apps that can be installed without the AIR runtime, and provides some additional functionality that the AIR API itself does not.
  From a quick scan of their command list, [...]

• AIR, Flex

  full screen vanishing act

  03.30.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I have come across a strange problem trying to make an AIR app, authored in Flex, go fullscreen.
  First of all, I hit the problem of trying to use the “stage” reference of WindowedApplication in my creationComplete handler method. As John C. Bland II points out, “when creationComplete is called the stage object is null”. He [...]

• AIR, db

  simple sql batch loader in air

  03.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just made a little AIR app that lets you run batches of SQL statements against an SQLite database.

  Install it if you like, but be aware that it’s a very basic and untested app, and Christopher Coenraets’ SQLite Admin for AIR does everything my little app does, and more …

• AIR

  air sqlite admin

  03.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I just came across this AIR-based SQLite GUI.
  It’s pretty basic yet but shows a lot of promise. Excellent use of Flex. I expect great things for future releases!

• AIR

  air apps and techniques

  03.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been trawling the web for cool AIR apps and techniques for AIR development. Here’s what I’ve seen thus far.
  David Tucker has ten handy AIR dev tips (like this one for serialising objects).
  There’s a “top 100 music videos” app from AOL. Pretty slick. Reminded me of how much I hate commercial music. There was only [...]

• 3d, AIR

  papervision3d + air’s htmlloader = vanity cube

  03.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  More fun with Papervision3D and AIR.
  Using a Cube decorated with six MovieMaterial instances that feed on BitmapData objects taken from instances AIR’s HTMLLoader, we get a little 3D browser cube:

  Here is the app. View source is enabled (warning: very scrappy experimental code).
  I was hoping the HTML objects would allow me to load Flash content … [...]

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