Comments on: Open Review : Getting Started with AIR Chapter

By: Marion

Marion — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:21:14 +0000

What do I do if my AIR application runs fine when I run / debug it in Flex, but has problems when exported as release build and installed as AIR app?

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:56:39 +0000

Thanks for the quick response Mike… I’m still not getting anywhere unfortunately :(

I’m running some PHP on a localhost, eventually to be hosted online, and accessing it via Air’s HTML class within a desktop air app. I have a function, myASFunction(), within my MXML that I want to call from the JS within the PHP pages at runtime. I’ve tried many ways of doing this including window.runtime.flash.desktop.NativeApplication.nativeApplication.myASFunction(); but these don’t seem to work :(

I’ve read blogs that suggesting what you did above but I’ve also read blogs suggesting…

(inside MXML) html.useApplicationDomain = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain;
(inside JS) runtime.mx.core.Application.application.myASFunction();

Can you provide any insight into this?

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:54:21 +0000

Check out:

http://www.tostring.org/books/adobe-air-for-javascript-developers-pocketguide/1.0/en/working-with-javascript-and-html-within-adobe-air/

You can get a reference to your application via:

window.runtime.flash.desktop.NativeApplication.nativeApplication

from both ActionScript and JavaScript.

You can use this to call into ActionScript functions from JavaScript.

Hope that helps…

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:34:06 +0000

Thanks for the post, found this really helpful when getting started with AIR. Got a question which I’ve google’d time and time again and none of the solutions work so I’ve came to the source… how do I use JavaScript to call an AS3 function defined in my AIR app??? This seems an obvious question I know but I just can’t get it to work!!! Any help would be much appreciated…