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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I have completed a new chapter for the upcoming O’Reilly Flex 4 Cookbook on AIR Basics. This includes a section on how to work with native executables.
Here is what I did as part of this example.
First I created a simple application that included some native c code that simply accepted a few arguments and printed [...]
AIR 2.0 Native Installer Concerns
Thursday, November 19th, 2009I love the fact that you can now create native installers for your AIR 2.0 applications (see my 1st post on the subject here) as I feel this will lead to a larger potential audience for your applications whether or not you are actually using any native processes. However, while reading an article titled “Interacting [...]
Updating AIR 2.0 Flex 4 Apps
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Just a brief FYI that may save you some pain and avoid the TypeError: Error #1007: . If you are now creating AIR 2.0 using MX / Spark, you will need to change the swc you are using for the UI from applicationupdater_ui.swc to a specific one for Flex 4 called applicationupdater_ui4.swc. If you have [...]
Your First AIR 2.0 EXE file
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Here is a very simple example of how to create your first installed exe for an AIR application. Here is what I did.
NOTE: Please make sure you have your application xml file set to:
1<supportedprofiles>extendedDesktop desktop</supportedprofiles>
AIR 2.0 Sample Applications
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009AIR 2.0 beta is now available and with it comes a ton of new functionality, check out these sample applications and source code to see these new features in action.
FileTile
FileTile demonstrates two new capabilities in AIR 2: mass storage device detection, and opening files with their default applications. When running, FileTile detects when a storage [...]
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