DaveOnCode » air http://www.daveoncode.com coder and technology lover Sun, 16 May 2010 16:55:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Preparing for Adobe Flex 3 + AIR certification http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/25/preparing-for-adobe-flex-3-air-certification/ http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/25/preparing-for-adobe-flex-3-air-certification/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 07:58:29 +0000 Davide Zanotti http://www.daveoncode.com/?p=421 I’m preparing for the Adobe Flex 3 + AIR certification and I would like to share two AIR applications which I’m using to study an test my Flex knowledge.
The first is pretty famous, so maybe you already know it: Tour The Flex.
It provides hundreds examples of all components available in the framework and includes Adobe reference.
The second is a real helpful app (which I discovered through Twitter), because it consist in an exam simulator (flex 3 + air). Is possible to choose between 8 different test, once a test begins a timer will show you the remaining time and at the end of test the reached score will be showed. Wrongs questions will be explained and you’ll be pointed to Adobe reference for clarifications.
The (free!) application is available here: http://software.pxldesigns.com/attest

]]> http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/25/preparing-for-adobe-flex-3-air-certification/feed/ 0 AIR applications logging… my own extension to Flex’s logging framework http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/11/air-application-logging-flex-extension/ http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/11/air-application-logging-flex-extension/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 09:16:17 +0000 Davide Zanotti http://www.daveoncode.com/?p=396 Finally it’s time to release my little project and my first personal and public Actionscript library.
What I’m talking about? I realized a little “subframework” which goal is to extend Flex’s logging framework, in order to write log messages to files on the disk and provide a custom Flex’s UI component (which can be easy used into every AIR application) to read/filtering these log files.

Learn more here: http://www.daveoncode.com/air-logging-framework

Just a note: although I tested the library (windows and mac) and it works fine, this project may contains bugs or doesn’t work under some circumstances. Comments and feedback are welcome!

]]> http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/11/air-application-logging-flex-extension/feed/ 0 Documenting Actionscript classes which make use of AIR framework http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/04/documenting-actionscript-classes-which-make-use-of-air-framework/ http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/04/documenting-actionscript-classes-which-make-use-of-air-framework/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 21:57:09 +0000 Davide Zanotti http://www.daveoncode.com/?p=392 This is just a quick post that may (I hope) help who are going to use asdoc tool to generate Actionscript documentation for AS classes which use AIR framework.

Problem:

You want to generate documentation for your package(s), but when you type asdoc command in the terminal you get a lot of errors such:

Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: File.
Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Vector

…and so on

Solution:

You have to use -external-library-path option to include AIR swc, because AIR classes are located into external swc apart from Flex framework.
These files are under /sdks/{yourSDKVersion}/frameworks/libs/air/ (where “{yourSDKVersion}” is the version of Flex SDK you are using to deploy your applications) and are the following five:

  • airframework.swc
  • airglobal.swc
  • applicationupdater_ui.swc
  • applicationupdater.swc
  • servicemonitor.swc

The first 2 should be imported with -external-library-path option anytime you use AIR classes, the others are necessary only if you are using the update framework and/or serivicemonitor.

The following is an example of how to use the asdoc command with the option discussed:


./asdoc -source-path=/Users/davidezanotti/Documents/workspace/myproject/src/ -external-library-path=/Applications/Adobe\ Flex\ Builder\ 3\ Plug-in/sdks/3.3.0.4589/frameworks/libs/air/airframework.swc,/Applications/Adobe\ Flex\ Builder\ 3\ Plug-in/sdks/3.3.0.4589/frameworks/libs/air/airglobal.swc -doc-sources=/Users/davidezanotti/Documents/workspace/myproject/src/ -output=/Users/davidezanotti/Desktop/doc

The code above will succesfull generate documentation for all classes under the folder “/Users/davidezanotti/Documents/workspace/myproject/src/” to the “doc” folder on the desktop.

]]> http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/05/04/documenting-actionscript-classes-which-make-use-of-air-framework/feed/ 0 Make money with AIR applications by using Sharify http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/04/21/make-money-with-air-applications-by-using-sharify/ http://www.daveoncode.com/2009/04/21/make-money-with-air-applications-by-using-sharify/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:48:20 +0000 Davide Zanotti http://www.daveoncode.com/?p=383 I just discovered Sharify, an interesting service which goal is to provide AIR developers the tools for create shareware (sellable) applications.
It seems also very easy to use, the steps are: register to the site, create an application id, integrate the sharify library (an swf file) into the application and choose a payment method (like paypal). The service unfortunately is not free, but require the 3% of each license sold… however I find the percentage very reasonable (if the service is valid and secure as I expect).
I didn’t try it yet, but I think I’ll do in the future :)

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