Thanks for the post and ideas. I am actually looking for a similar solution. I am trying to build an ADOBE AIR application that will use C# code library as in the sample provided by you. I got a problem. I’m not able to figure out how can i get progress of the process. I have to display progress bar.

On c# side property is exposed which is updated with progress data.

Do you know if this is possible? Can you tell me the solution if this is possible.

Thanks in advance

A Java solution could alternatively be used. You could package a light weight web container (such as Tomcat or Jetty) with your application which makes use of Blaze DS. The concept of RemoteObject is already a part of Flex/Air, and Java Objects could be directly mapped to AS3 objects.

When creating new AIR (or Flex) based applications with Flash Builder 4, you can easily configure the Blaze DS services with minimal effort on the AIR side.

Thanks for the post and ideas. I am actually looking for a similar solution. I am trying to build an application that will help designers create a SWF file that embeds fonts with the necessary glyphs. Just trying to build a tool that will help our team avoid font version and pc to mac font problems by having one SWF file for fonts.

I had a few ideas on how to build it, one was using AIR. I was planning on having AIR write some classes and batch files and make it launch the Flex SDK to compile that SWF. But apparently I can not launch applications through it.

Another idea I had was to have AIR either write a SWF file with the correct data embedded. Or FLA file with the correct code in it. I’m am going to guess that this will be very difficult and involve a lot of ByteArray exploration. This is probably over my head.

My last idea was to possibly use Director. I’ve been having a difficulty finding something in Director that may do this. Do you know if this is possible? Maybe an Xtra plugin?

Is anything that I’m writing feasible? I’m just trying to build an app to help my team. Any ideas would help. Do you think AIR 2.0 might allow launching applications? Should I try a non Adobe product? Thanks.

I understand that working in two different languages might defeat the purpose of Adobe AIR; however, I believe that extending it certaintly couldn’t hurt.

I’ve been trying to run a PHP CLI application as a server/extender that communicates with an AIR client via sockets, but unfortunately, the connection seems to be intermittent. The AIR app seems to be able to send a random number of pings to the socket server before the PHP socket server hangs. If I restart the AIR application and try again, the socket server starts echoing back to the AIR client.

I’m thinking the problem might have something to do with managing the byte length of the socket buffers, but perhaps I’m completely wrong. When developing the command proxy, did you run into this intermittent problem and if so, how did you resolve it?

Your comments/advice are much appreciated!

Ben

http://code.google.com/p/commandproxy/downloads/list

Can you tell me, where i can get to source.

Thanks for any infos.

roland

It seems that the AIR/Flex security is limited due to the complex types of applications as well as compatibility with the Flash security.

It seems to me that the installer processing which shows the validation or lack of digit cert. signing is ok. The part where the installer shows “full access” is limited. What if my application does not access the file system, local databases, etc. Perhaps a more meaningful display of the actual usage of the os/AIR interaction would be helpful.

As far as AIR development goes, I would prefer to develop my system as a set of many complimentary small applications which communicate with each other, as well as occasionally communicate with back end web services.

The LocalConnection class allows me to handle communication between my applications, with nice security for the allowDomain to make sure that only the apps the I want can communicate. This keeps security nice and tight.

It seems to me that at the very least, AIR should have a similar mechanism to allow AIR applications to launch other applications without ignoring the security concerns.

Thanks, all!

Pete

I want to use the print screen function in my air app..

Thanks in advance..

-sara
http://www.designscripting.com/