Following the AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 betas last month, comes updates for the current platform runtimes in the form of AIR 1.5.3 and Flash Player 10.0.42. Most important to my work is the Publisher ID changes in AIR. I’ve have the need to migrate certificates before, so have paid close attention to the […]
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Just like the sign says… VidLoop 1.4.18 is out on Adobe AIR Marketplace. It’s been a year since I released the initial version (built over last Thanksgiving holiday) and have been working on some revisions in the past few weeks with the intention of getting this new version out as an anniversary marking. Looks like
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The Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 Public betas are now available via Adobe Labs: Flash Player 10.1 AIR 2.0 These are the first fruits to come out of the Open Screen Project – and hopefully much more good will follow as FP 10.1 for mobile devices will begin shipping later this year into next
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I wrote a new AIR app called LiveStreamer available now via the Adobe AIR Marketplace. This started as a simple mechanism to display a live RTMP stream from Flash Media Server to a client machine and related projection system. So… not for broadcast over the web- just sending a live stream from one physical location
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In reading over the Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Release Notes, the most noticeable change for end-users seems to be a friendlier install screen for signed apps. The AIR application installer panel that displays the publisher identity has been simplified when an application is signed with a chained certificate Sure enough, it is a much more welcoming
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The Student Shuffler AIR application is now available via Adobe AIR Marketplace. The app was built to facilitate a fair and transparent way of organizing classroom presentations whether by group or individual student. The instructor goes in before class and inputs each presenter into the application edit interface. This is saved locally to the internal
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After having deployed many AIR apps with self-signed certificates over the past year or so, when I finally got one from a certificate authority I was quite happy to update my apps with it. Not so fast! You can’t update an AIR app that has been signed with a different certificate than a previously installed
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There are two items to note here. Firstly, Adobe has done an awesome job updating the AIR Marketplace to be much more organized that the previous version. Very nice presentation. Second, my VidLoop AIR application has been approved and is now live at the AIR Marketplace. Very Nice! There are a lot of great apps
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Just a quick tip for those looking to somehow display the AIR application version from the descriptor file. I’ve found it very helpful in troubleshooting is users can say EXACTLY what version of the app they are running. AIR 2.5 and later: private function getAppVersion():String { var appXml:XML = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor; var ns:Namespace = appXml.namespace(); var
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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
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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
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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.
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