This would have saved me some time had I read the documentation a little better. When looking at the members of a flash.filesystem.File object, I was initially using “nativePath” to discover the location of the file on a users system. Knowing that path formatting differs between operating systems, I had a little logic in there …
A FlexEvent.IDLE event will dispatch every 100 milliseconds when there has been no keyboard or mouse activity for 1 second. So, if you want to have some other method fire off after the user is inactive for 5 minutes (for example), you would set it up as detailed below. Be sure to import the following …
I took some time today to update the VidLoop AIR application. The current version is 1.2.2. New features include a randomize function and the integration of the AIR Update Framework. I’ve also fixed a few small bugs. A note of importance here… I really should have integrated the update framework before my initial public build. …
Last week, I was approached by someone asking if we could build a small application that would run a series of videos in a continual loop. I told him it would be pretty simple to do this and that it would only be an afternoon’s work in AIR. So, that evening, I was able to …
The DUVAGA Projection System [VPS] has been featured in an article for the CTL Newsletter this quarter: This fall, the DUVAGA development group released a new version of the projection software which gives the user the option to use the multiple display capability in any classroom. This new version automatically detects the number of displays …
The topic of my presentation will be on the DUVAGA Projection System [VPS] and will cover why AIR was chosen as the platform for this application, the development period, and usage. I hope to include slides, code overview, and demos. It’ll be a fast and furious 30 minutes! Anyone interested in an overview of Flex-based …
I’m taking a moment to highlight the Visual Media Center at the University of Denver and the relatively new weblog maintained by its Director, Leslie Trumble. The VMC works very closely with those of us on the DU VAGA development team and most of the feedback we receive about the application originates with users from …
A lot of desktop apps have a splash screen that brands the application while it is loading or performing other processes in the background. Adobe AIR does not have a direct mechanism for this- but the feature can be easily achieved with some nice windowing action. There are a number of steps to take when …
I have this problem with Flex Builder 3. If I have “Build Automatically” checked under “Project”, my workspace gets stuck in this “Building Workspace” limbo and can never launch any projects for testing unless I toggle this setting back off. I’ve had the feature disabled for a few months now, but with the release of …
This one threw me for a loop. So I’ve been using the flash.display.NativeWindow class to create new windows in AIR (via Flex) since the beta releases. Historically, this has been a pain when you want to add MXML components to the native window as addChild() does not work with the NativeWindow class unless that child …
I skipped development on AIR Beta 2 simply because I was too busy doing other things. Now that Beta 3 is out, I’ve begun developing some modules that use such features as local storage and network monitoring. I’m very impressed so far and can see using this on a number of projects. Hopefully, resource consumption …
I’m using AIR integration with Flex Builder 3 to contain and package an AS2 SWF which was originally using Screenweaver for deployment to a standalone app. The problem I’ve noticed is that I have two areas into which each are being drawn from another MC using BitmapData.draw() which work just great in Flash CS3 when …