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Major update of Goalscape AIR application

This friday we have released major update for Goalscape AIR application. It is project we (me with Tomas as Flexets company) have been working on for more than year. If you are not aware of Goalscape application please look at intro video. But in one sentence it’s Goal Management Software.

DragManager.doDrag problems

I have found 2 issues with DragManager.doDrag. One of the problem is just on Mac and second one is “not really problem”, but strange behavior between web version and AIR version. I really can’t find answers for this problems, so I’m trying to get answers from you. I hope anyone has workaround for me

Fastest way of closing AIR application

In my appliaction, The code: “application.close();” is used to exit
the application. And I found, no. of ways are there to exit the application. Let me
know, which one is best , should allow the grace full exit and should faster.

No. of ways to Exit in Flex:

1. NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
2. Application.application.exit();
3. application.close();
4. exit();

And please advise, any other option is there to exit the application.

AIR Tip: Flash movie is not rendered in AIR 1.5 HTML in Fullscreen

This is long title, but it can tells everything. I came up interesting issue. I do not know if you have already played with new AIR 1.5. We need some new features, so we have used it. And found interesting issue. If you are using HTML compoment and want to load HTML pages with Flash [...]

AIR Tip: ContextMenuItem can crash AIR app on Windows

This is just quick tip for all AIR developers. If you are developing AIR application and you want to use ContextMenu please be aware of possible problem on Windows platform. This is not problem on Mac, and it’s not problem in Flash Player (even on Windows). It is problem just in AIR on Windows

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Adobe AIR 1.5 available in Flex SDK Nightly builds

Adobe AIR 1.5 with codename Cosmo is available in Flex SDK Nightly builds. There are include almost all features with Flash Player 10, 5 new languages supported, Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM into the Webkit HTML engine (should provide significant improvements to JavaScript execution), fixed bugs and many more…
Mike Chambers got more information.

AirTip: List all of your drives in AIR application

This is quick Air Tip: If you need get list of all of your drives in code, just use

var list:Array = File.getRootDirectories();

It list all of y our hard drives with CD ROM drives. But if CD is inserted in CD ROM drive, it will be listed as well. I don’t find way how to find [...]

AirTip: AIR application gained focus

This is little AIR Tip: if you want to know when your AIR application gained focus, just listen to AIREvent.APPLICATION_ACTIVATE.

addEventListener(AIREvent.APPLICATION_ACTIVATE, handleApplicationActivate);

Flexets Forum: New resource for Flex / Flash / AIR learning

We have launched new forum on our company site Flexets.com to help people in Flex / Flash / AIR / ActionScript learning process. I hope we will help people to see that beauty and easiness in developing with Adobe tools. It’s targeted to Flex, AIR, Flash, ActionScript as well as collection of useful resources. We [...]