Tag Archives: AIR

AIR: Migrating Expired Certificates using AIR 1.5.3

If you renew your certificate and you are running an earlier version of Adobe AIR than 1.5.3, you are in a world of hurt. The process of updating and renewing your certificate is enough of a pain, but trying to update your AIR application after your certificate expires prior to 1.5.3 required [...]
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Custom AIR updater interface using ApplicationUpdater

To tell you the truth, I never gave the ApplicationUpdaterUI much thought in terms of memory use before this post. I just thought it was a great way to add a complete update system to your AIR applications. I had not thought it could be so memory intensive until a recent conversation with [...]
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Adobe MAX 2009 – Los Angeles

This year Adobe Max 2009 is in my own backyard, well sort of 6 miles up the street, which means about an hour away in LA traffic. I am hoping to get in for free some how, either through Adobe Max Awards or by posting the Adobe Max Widget. See everyone there, maybe…
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AIR:: Adding Application Menu Bar Items

Just a quick how-to post on adding application menu bar items to your Adobe AIR application when running. Certain operating systems can support application menu bars, so this example will not be true for all systems. You can check this using “NativeApplication.supportsMenu == true”, which basically means you are on Mac OSX dude. [...]
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AIR :: TextField bug when resetting HTML text.

I ran into a really strange issue that only occurs within AIR applications (AIR 1.5.1/1.5.2). When I create a TextField control, set it's style, and then assign it HTML text it appears fine. However, if I wish to reset that TextField content and the original content has links, the entire replaced content becomes one HTML link. I think the issue can be better explained with some images and some code samples.
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Using AIR 1.5.1 InovkeReason for friendlier applications

I recently discovered a new feature of AIR 1.5.1 that makes AIR applications more consumer friendly in certain situations. When you have your application set to start on user login using “NativeApplication.nativeApplication.startAtLogin = true”, you may want the application to start as a background process rather than show the entire application at login. [...]
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AIR :: NativeMenu issue on Mac

I think the NativeMenu is a great option for AIR applications as you can get a consistent look for the application that matches the operating system. The other advantage is that NativeMenu’s are “outside” of the application and do not get clipped as they would if you just created a popup Canvas with a [...]
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Adobe AIR Runtime Font Differences

This was a heck of a problem to discover and even worse to try to figure out why. Sadly, I did not find a good solution the problem. I will give the short and sweet rundown of the issue. You have three different machines, three different operating system, the same version of Flex [...]
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Storing an ArrayCollection in the EncryptedLocalStore

On one of my side AIR projects I got the idea to store an ArrayCollection (AC) object into the EncryptedLocalStore (ELS) to have a sort of mini data structure. I thought it would be no problem since you can basically throw anything you want into the EncryptedLocalStore as long as its not over [...]
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