Mike Chambers

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Open Review : Getting Started with AIR Chapter

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I have posted chapter 2 of the Adobe AIR for Flex Developers Pocketguide on tostring.org. The chapter is titled Getting Started with Adobe AIR Development and covers (from the chapter):

  • Installing Adobe AIR
  • Configuring the Flex SDK and command-line tools
  • Creating your first AIR application with the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3
  • Testing AIR applications
  • Signing, packaging, and deploying AIR applications

This is just a draft chapter (.85) and I am looking for any comments, input, questions or suggestions on the chapter. If you have any input, just leave a comment on the chapter page.

Written by mikechambers

June 30th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

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  1. 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…

    Pete

    18 Jul 08 at 9:34 am

  2. 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

    mikechambers

    18 Jul 08 at 9:54 am

  3. 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?

    Pete

    19 Jul 08 at 4:56 am

  4. 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?

    Marion

    20 Aug 08 at 2:21 am

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