Category Archives: AIR

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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Adobe technology platform RIA guide

Posted on 20/03/2008 by derRaab

This is simply the link list contained in the recently released Adobe technology platform ActionScript Reference PDF. API References Adobe ActionScript 3 Language Reference Adobe AIR JavaScript Language Reference Documentation Flex 3 Documentation Adobe AIR Documentation Developer Centers Adobe Developer … Continue reading →

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Write with AIR applications to the application resource directory

Posted on 12/03/2008 by derRaab

AIR applications are not permitted to write to the application resource directory. This seems to be a security feature and makes sense, because some systems would not allow to write into this directory at system level. But for testing purposes … Continue reading →

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