Tag Archives: AIR
Detecting Local Drives with Adobe AIR
Detecting a listing for local drives using Adobe AIR is fairly straight forward using the Adobe AIR File function getDirectoryListing for Mac or getRootDirectories for PC. The following code will get you a listing of the local drives for Mac or PC: 1234567891011import flash.filesystem.File; import flash.system.Capabilities; private function getDrives():void { var os:String [...]
Omniture Tracking in Flash, Flex and AIR Applications
If you are developing Enterprise level applications chances are you are either used Omniture or you will be asked to integrate with Omniture tracking services. This post is not really about the specifics of Omniture tracking, but rather about the implementation methods for Flash, Flex, and AIR (with Flex). Usually, Omniture tracking events are sent [...]
Posted in AIR, Flash, Flex, Omniture Also tagged ActionSource, Flex, HTMLLoader, JavaScript, Omniture 3 Comments
Get ready to breathe some AIR with Oxygen
Xdrive is coming out with a new desktop client called Oxygen that will manage their online storage service using Adobe AIR and Flex. Larry Drolet and I first discussed Oxygen at a recent FITC conference in Hollywood. Oxygen was first designed as a proof of concept application using Flex, AIR, and the Xdrive JSON API version 1.2. [...]
FITC Hollywood 2007
I was asked to speak at this years FITC conference located at Universal Studios, Hollywood. I will be co-presenting with my co-worker Larry Drolet. Our presentation is called “Concepts on AIR”. We will demonstrated some basic AIR concepts such as system chrome, drag and drop, and system notification. We will also present some pretty cool [...]
Binding XML to ComboBox using XMLListCollection
This post has been in serious need of updating since its one of my more popular posts, but the post is really outdated. Here is a new way to bind your data to a ComboBox and DataGrid by loading your XML document and converting it to an XMLListCollection. Update 9/15/2009 An easier way to convert [...]
Posted in AIR, Flex Also tagged Binding, ComboBox, DataGrid, XML, XMLList, XMLListCollection 18 Comments


Secure login using the EncryptedLocalStore in Adobe AIR