Tag Archives: Flex

Custom AIR updater interface using ApplicationUpdater

By Mister | Published: September 13, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in AIR, Flex | Also tagged AIR, ApplicationUpdater, ApplicationUpdaterUI | 7 Comments

Adobe MAX 2009 – Los Angeles

By Mister | Published: August 21, 2009

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…

Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex News | Also tagged Adobe, Adobe MAX, Adobe Max 2009, AIR, Flash | Leave a comment

AIR:: Adding Application Menu Bar Items

By Mister | Published: July 31, 2009

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. [...]

Posted in AIR, Flex 3 | Also tagged Adobe AIR, AIR, garbage collection, NativeApplication, NativeMenuItem, WindowedApplication | 3 Comments

AIR :: TextField bug when resetting HTML text.

By Mister | Published: July 14, 2009

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.

Posted in AIR, Bugs, Flex | Also tagged Adobe AIR, AIR, Bug, HTML, TextField | Leave a comment

Adding Mac OS X Close Behavior to AIR 1.5 Application

By Mister | Published: June 3, 2009

Just a quick post because I have seen this done on other sites but it no longer is valid in AIR 1.5. Most Mac OS X applications minimize to system tray on closing the application using the “x” close button on the app. To achieve this in AIR 1.5 you will [...]

Posted in AIR | Also tagged Adobe AIR | 5 Comments

AIR :: NativeMenu issue on Mac

By Mister | Published: May 6, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in AIR, Flex | Also tagged Add new tag, AIR, NativeMenu, NativeMenu Item | 1 Comment

HTTP Status 201 causing Flex #2032 Error in IE only

By Mister | Published: March 28, 2009

I ran into a problem right when we were going to launch a new Flex web-based application to production (of course) with Internet Explorer and Flex. I was calling an RESTful service that returns XML and using the built-in Flex HTTPService with either POST/GET as the method for the request. Most [...]

Posted in API, Flash, Flex | Also tagged 2032 Error, HTTPService, Rails, Status 201, Web Services, XML | 3 Comments

Smooth Scrolling HorizontalList

By Mister | Published: March 3, 2009

This example is based on Alex Harui’s Smooth Scrolling List. It just changes the code to work with the HorizontalList control rather than the List control. The SmoothHorizontalScrollingList class extends the HorizontalList control adding the needed functionality to allow smooth scrolling:

Posted in Component, Flex | Also tagged HorizontalList | 13 Comments

PhoneSeek :: Adobe AIR application

By Mister | Published: March 2, 2009

PhoneSeek is an application to track any device that uses InstaMapper. InstaMapper is free real-time GPS tracking service. To use InstaMapper you need a GPS enabled device with the free InstaMapper tracking software installed along with a API Key from InstaMapper’s web site for each device you own. You can track [...]

Posted in AIR, API, Android, Cairngorm, ColdFusion, Mate | Also tagged Adobe AIR, Cairngorm, Mate, PureMVC | 5 Comments

Adobe AIR Runtime Font Differences

By Mister | Published: February 6, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in AIR, Flex, Font | Also tagged AIR, Flex Builder 3 | 6 Comments