January 27th, 2009 – by mwilcox
In a previous post I provided the steps to get you up and running with Adobe AIR. I’ll continue with the debugging features available in AIR and the Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR (dAIR). The Adobe AIR Introspector is a Firebug-like console that logs messages and has code inspectors. Its logging capability is good, but it’s made even better with code in the dair namespace.
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Tags: adl, Adobe AIR SDK, adt, AIRIntrospector, Console, dair, Introspector
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January 21st, 2009 – by mwilcox
As previously announced by Dylan Schiemann, SitePen has released the Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR (dAIR) project that help make it simple to use Dojo into an AIR application. These extensions also simplify some of the more difficult AIR APIs by wrapping them and adding some syntactic sugar.
Working with Adobe AIR is a real treat for a web developer. You get to work with desktop features such as native drag and drop, system icons, reading and writing files, an encrypted SQLite database, and chrome-less, non-rectangular windows (even with HTML!). You also have access to all of the features of Flash, like audio and video, sound transforms, uploads and downloads, byte arrays, and Pixel Bender. Best of all, you get to have a single target environment, in WebKit — CSS3 selectors and styling, a super-fast JavaScript engine, and no compatibility issues with a certain browser.
Adobe worked hard at making desktop applications easy and accessible for web developers. I’ll explain the steps to get your development environment setup.
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Tags: adl, Adobe AIR SDK, adt, dair
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