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AIR Tip: Flash movie is not rendered in AIR 1.5 HTML in Fullscreen

This is long title, but it can tells everything. I came up interesting issue. I do not know if you have already played with new AIR 1.5. We need some new features, so we have used it. And found interesting issue. If you are using HTML compoment and want to load HTML pages with Flash [...]

AIR Tip: ContextMenuItem can crash AIR app on Windows

This is just quick tip for all AIR developers. If you are developing AIR application and you want to use ContextMenu please be aware of possible problem on Windows platform. This is not problem on Mac, and it’s not problem in Flash Player (even on Windows). It is problem just in AIR on Windows

Adobe AIR 1.5 available in Flex SDK Nightly builds

Adobe AIR 1.5 with codename Cosmo is available in Flex SDK Nightly builds. There are include almost all features with Flash Player 10, 5 new languages supported, Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM into the Webkit HTML engine (should provide significant improvements to JavaScript execution), fixed bugs and many more…
Mike Chambers got more information.

AirTip: List all of your drives in AIR application

This is quick Air Tip: If you need get list of all of your drives in code, just use

var list:Array = File.getRootDirectories();

It list all of y our hard drives with CD ROM drives. But if CD is inserted in CD ROM drive, it will be listed as well. I don’t find way how to find [...]

AirTip: AIR application gained focus

This is little AIR Tip: if you want to know when your AIR application gained focus, just listen to AIREvent.APPLICATION_ACTIVATE.

addEventListener(AIREvent.APPLICATION_ACTIVATE, handleApplicationActivate);

AirTip: Problem with app.xml in Flex 3

So this is first tip for AIR development (See my FlexTips). I came across bug in Flex 3 Beta. It’s strange. I was playing with App-app.xml file to try change chrome and transparency.

<rootcontent systemChrome=”standard” transparent=”false” visible=”true”></rootcontent>
If you have systemChrome=”standard”, transparency must be set to false, if you have systemChrome=”none”, you can set transparency to [...]