Archive for June, 2008

Update Framework for Adobe AIR Applications

This beta release of the update framework for Adobe AIR Applications provides APIs to assist developers in including good update capabilities in their AIR applications. The functionality present in update framework assists developers in the following:

* Periodically checking for updates based on an interval or at the request of the user
* Downloading AIR files (updates) from a web source
* Alerting the user on the first run of the newly installed version or performing data migration
* Confirming that the user wants to check for updates
* Displaying information to the user on the new available version for download
* Displaying download progress and error information to the user

The update framework supplies a default user interface that your application can use. It provides the user with basic information and options related to application updates. Your application can also also define its own custom user interface for use with the update framework.

For more info chek this link.

Positioning popups

This small demo show to you how to handle the position of popups created through the PopUpManager class in a Flex application.

At the following link you find the demo with the view source enabled, the key points are:

  • Dinamically position of the popups accordingly to a link button position
  • Creation of a custom popup

Hope it helps…

Flex SDK 3.0.2 update

Since yesterday is available here the stable build of the Flex SDK 3.0.2.2113.
One of the good reason to upgrade your Flex Builder is that with this SDK you can create AIR application compatible with the release 1.1 (multilanguage support) and some security enhancements.

You can find more info here:

In order to make the update able to work with data visualization components or automated testing you have to copy the following files from the SDK 3.0 folder to the new SDK folder you create for the SDK 3.0.2.2113:

# <sdkdir>/frameworks/libs/automation*.swc
# <sdkdir>/frameworks/libs/datavisualization.swc
# <sdkdir>/frameworks/locale/en_US/automation*.swc
# <sdkdir>/frameworks/locale/en_US/datavisualization_rb.swc
# <sdkdir>/frameworks/locale/ja_JP/automation*.swc
# <sdkdir>/frameworks/locale/ja_JP/datavisualization_rb.swc
# <sdkdir>/frameworks/rsls/datavisualization_3.0.0.477.*