June 17, 2008 at 12:42 Air news
Firstly, an update of AIR Runtime itself was released , now AIR 1.1! They say that a bunch of bugs were fixed and runtime localization appeared. Among the supported languages, there is Russian.
A few spices for developers have also been added:
For development on Flex, you will need to update the SDK . You will also need to change xmlns to " ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1 ."
- Secondly, the AIR Update Framework appeared , providing the following features
Update Framework (including documentation and templates) (ZIP, 0.92 MB)
Examples for Update Framework (ZIP, 12.8 MB)
- Thirdly, SwitchBoard appeared , allowing you to connect AIR applications with CS3 applications (and, I think, above). To communicate with CS3 applications, you will need a SwitchBoard installer . For development, you need to install the SwitchBoard SDK .
What gives SwitchBoard? It allows you to access the ExtendScript DOM of CS3 applications from an AIR application, as well as launch the desired application, for example, Photoshop, for a specified file directly from AIR.
A few spices for developers have also been added:
- Support for creating localized applications, including keyboard input for dual-byte languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean
- Support for localization of application name and description
- Support for localization of error messages (e.g. SQLError.detailID and SQLError.detailArguments in SQLite DB)
- Added Capabilities.languages property, which allows you to find out the preferred language for the UI based on OS parameters
- Localized default menus and inscriptions on html buttons
- Support for changing an application’s own certificate to a certificate of a certification authority
- Support for tablets and 64-bit whist windows
- Now you can find out the size of available disk space (File.spaceAvailable)
- Now you can find out if the OS allows you to make transparent windows (NativeWindow.supportsTransparency)
For development on Flex, you will need to update the SDK . You will also need to change xmlns to " ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1 ."
- Secondly, the AIR Update Framework appeared , providing the following features
- Periodically check for updates at certain intervals or at the request of the user
- Download AIR files (updates) over the Internet
- User warning on first run of installed application
- User confirmation to check for updates
- Display to the user information on the availability of the new version
- Display boot process and error information
Update Framework (including documentation and templates) (ZIP, 0.92 MB)
Examples for Update Framework (ZIP, 12.8 MB)
- Thirdly, SwitchBoard appeared , allowing you to connect AIR applications with CS3 applications (and, I think, above). To communicate with CS3 applications, you will need a SwitchBoard installer . For development, you need to install the SwitchBoard SDK .
What gives SwitchBoard? It allows you to access the ExtendScript DOM of CS3 applications from an AIR application, as well as launch the desired application, for example, Photoshop, for a specified file directly from AIR.