Category Archives: AIR

Undocumented XMLUtil class in Adobe Flash CS5?

Posted on 18/05/2010 by derRaab

I tried to recompile an older Flash CS 4 project with Flash CS 5 but got this compile time error 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method reuseNodes through a reference with static type Class caused by the usage of … Continue reading →

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Aligning Flash TextField instances visually correct

Posted on 16/05/2010 by derRaab

I was looking for an easy way to align TextField instances with different font sizes visually correct. I really thought this wouldn’t take much time but it turned out to become really frustrating. So think about a simple scenario: Try … Continue reading →

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FFK10 – Flashforum conference notes

Posted on 20/04/2010 by derRaab

Every year I spend two days sitting in the audience of the Flashforum conference (FFK) listening to great speakers and getting impressed by their experiments and thoughts. It’s also a good way to renew some of the basic knowledge in … Continue reading →

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Flash and Amazon SimpleDB

Posted on 26/03/2010 by derRaab

I did some research about using Amazons SimpleDB service within a Flash based application and found these basic facts: http://sdb.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml is not available. This means no direct calls from Flash clients in browsers are possible! Even if it would be … Continue reading →

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URLRequest with HTTP authentication

Posted on 25/02/2010 by derRaab

I found a good explanation how to support HTTP authentication with URLRequests here. That’s the most interesting part: Best I can tell, for some reason, this only works where request method is POST; the headers don’t get set with GET … Continue reading →

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Dock and system tray with Adobe AIR

Posted on 06/03/2009 by derRaab

Nice tutorial I guess: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flash/quickstart/stopwatch_dock_system_tray.html

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Packaging an AIR installation file

Posted on 08/10/2008 by derRaab

I found this adobe help page but I didn’t want to use command line for packaging an AIR installation file. Simply because I’m not used to it. So I was looking for a different way. Well, actually Flex Builder provides … Continue reading →

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Using the Loader-Class with Adobe AIR

Posted on 10/09/2008 by derRaab

Just a quick note because it took me a little while to find out that it’s necessary to use “file://” syntax to access the local file system. // Basic example: var url: String = "file:///Users/markusraab/Desktop/yourfile.swf";   // or use a … Continue reading →

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Adobe AIR flash.filesystem.File methods throw Error 2037 when no nativePath is set

Posted on 17/07/2008 by derRaab

While developing an Flex based AIR Application I figured out an issue with the flash.filesystem.File class. I tried to access properties like exists, nativePath etc. before a nativePath was set using a browse method. So the while debugging the following … Continue reading →

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Select and access local SWF files within an AIR application

Posted on 17/06/2008 by derRaab

Well, it took me a little time to figure out how to select and load a local SWF file into an SWFLoader instance. Several times I got this error message: SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content … Continue reading →

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