Brilliant! Thanks for the suggestion.
I've spent hours going over dimensions and trying to turn off scrollbars,
etc. I wish I understood why it is happening in the first place, but I am
not sure it is my error. It is happening in some browsers, but not all.
Probably would help if I had more
I have made my first app using Royale. The structure is made based upon Tour
De Jewel as a template using ResponsiveView so that it looks correct on all
devices. Search as I may, I cannot unearth one small problem. I have a
mysterious scrollbar on the right of the browser that only scrolls like
Just in case anybody else reads this, I thought I would post the solution.
If you create an AIR desktop app, but you include a single instance of a
MobileSkin to skin an element, the entire app will not display as intended
and the scrollbars will not behave correctly on a Mac. Windows is a
I have a desktop AIR app using AIR 33.1.1.406. Everything is running great on
Windows, but I have run into a problem with the mouse wheel using the
Scroller component on Mac. I have tried setting the verticalScrollPolicy to
"on" and "auto", but neither option forces the scrollbar to display, and
I think I may have figured it out. On a Mac, you can use "sudo" to be a
superuser and give you access to important administrative functions. But on
windows this doesn't work. I found that if I opened the "command prompt"
app in administrative mode, then the function below worked and I was able
The Flex Installer no longer seems to be installing the fonts libraries and
other third party dependencies. I have no idea why that has been disabled.
But I desperately need the font jars, so I tried to install them using the
instructions on the apache flex site and ran this command inside of
I just installed a fresh 14.6.1 Flex SDK so that I could overlay a new AIR
SDK over the top. When I was installing the Flex SDK, I noticed there were
no longer font libraries and other extras that were installed with it in the
past. Turns out that it messed with my apps a little as the fonts are
I know this is basic stuff for most of you, but I thought I would add it for
anybody who may have a similar problem. I got the item renderer to work by
adding the following code:
override public function set data(value:Object):void{
super.data = value;
width = AppVars.appWidth * .4;
I am using a Flex MobileGrid to display some real estate date in a mobile
app. Unfortunately, if the columns contain too much information, they do
not automatically truncate the column to ellipsis "..." As a result, I am
trying to write an ActionScript ItemRenderer to help with this and am
I think I found an acceptable solution. The webView ANE that I use allows me
to talk with Javascript. So I download the Google API key from my database,
pass it to the maps HTML file through Javascript, and everything works
great. This way, my API key is never in any files on my users device.
I have 3 mobile apps and 3 desktop apps that use a Google Maps API Key. If
these were to end up in the wild, it could cost me a pretty penny, and they
are very easy to find. The problem is that they are very visible in a simple
Google Maps html file that is in my local store directory. The HTML
Is it possible to position a PopUp from WITHIN the PopUp?
I have a desktop app that has to deal with a user resizing the app on the
screen. Most buttons and graphical elements I can move and resize to fit on
the screen appropriately using an Event.RESIZE listener for the component.
But my app has
I am writing a desktop AIR application, and I have a spark List whose purpose
is to display images with some statistics embeded in them. The problem that
I am running into is that the scroller in the List is covering some of the
statistics on the edge of the image and part of a button. I assumed
Any update on the installer?
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Thanks, I will give this a try and see how it goes. To be fair to the
framework, though, I don't believe that it defaulted to mobile skins
necessarily, but every component that I add to an app, I specifically give
it a skin that I want. Since the MobileGrid by default has a mobile skin, I
simply
Well, I can tell you that I have definitely narrowed down the problem to
skins. I can add mobile components to my app without it affecting the
behavior of my app, but if I add even a single mobile skin, the entire app
quits responding to the over state. I will have to look into it because I
am
I am beginning to think this is a deeper issue than I initially thought.
Since my apps was originally written for mobile, it has a few mobile
components and skins for those components. I simply left them in my desktop
versions so that I would have as few changes to make as possible because
these
I wrote a mobile app. I am now converting it to desktop. I basically just
created a new desktop project and copied all of my files into it from the
previous mobile project. Pretty much everything is working as I expected
except for one thing, none of my button skins will respond to a MouseOver
I am writing my first desktop app with AIR using Flex. I have created my own
chrome with minimize, maximize, and gripper buttons, but the TitleBar in the
chrome is overlaying some of my content at the top of the screen. I assumed
that the chrome would be "outside" the bounds of the application,
Think I found it. I included the experimental_mobile.swc found buried in the
sdk folder. I included it as a dependency and the error disappeared. I'll
report back if I find that I can't actually use the component on the
desktop.
[SDK]/frameworks/experimental_mobile.swc
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I have a mobile app that I am attempting to move to a desktop app. It uses a
grid that was made for mobile called the ns:MobileGrid
Although the spark grid is much more powerful, I do not need the power and
would like to simply use the mobile grid if at all possible. All of the
code is already
I'm running into the same problem. Can't Install 4.16.1, no checkmarks, but
I can install 4.16.0. Please fix!!!
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Thanks Piotrz. This is helpful information. I don't mind getting a little
dirty, and I just think this might be a shorter solution than learning React
Native or something else that I am totally new to. I feel like I should be
able to transfer a lot of the main functionality of my app to the web
Hi everyone, I need a little info. I have written a mobile real estate app
in Adobe AIR that I also modified to run on the desktop, and now I am
interested in making a web presence with it. But I hate coding in
html/javascript/css and won't even attempt that route. So I wanted to ask
about
Alex, to be honest, I have become accustomed to avoiding binding expressions
due to performance hits, especially with large array collections and
dataproviders. I have become so accustomed to doing this, that it
didn't even cross my mind. But a binding expressions are brilliant in this
I think I figured it out, or at least found a workaround. When I was tracing
out the button dimensions in both the original button and on the skin, the
skin value was tracing out BEFORE the button value, and of course giving an
erroneous value. I believe that because of the way that I manually
I have created a simple button skin that has rounded corners that I want to
look like a pill-button. I want it to work no matter how large or small the
button is. The main visual object in the skin is of course a object
that I will have to set the radius parameters on to round out the button.
Most are one line Labels, a couple have multiple lines but not many
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Alex, thanks for the thought. This is 3 extremely large and complex apps
that I have been building for almost 3 years. I don't think I have the
know-how to get something that large done in a reasonable amount of time.
But thanks for the idea!
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Thanks for the reply guys, I'm sure I will find something that is satifactory
in the end. I copy and paste things from the web and from text messages and
from Facebook and many other apps all of the time, so I just figured it
would be naturally included in most text components. Guess not.
Erik,
Nobody else has encountered this problem before??
On a modern Amazon Fire device, PopUps won't center vertically. Do I report
this to the guys here with Flex, or at Harmaan?
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Thanks for the reply Erik. That is definitely an option if I just wanted to
make a few lines of text in the app copyable. Unfortunately, I have a LOT
of fields that I think a user may want to copy and paste at some point, and
my app would be littered with icons and would look messy. Thanks for
I have written a mobile real estate app that displays a lot of property
information using Spark Labels. Unfortunately, Spark Labels are not
selectable, and a user might want to copy and paste a long MLS # or address
to Zillow, or copy the agent's phone number or email address to some other
tool.
I use a lot of PopUps in my mobile app. They work great on iOS, Android, and
Amazon Fire devices, but the don't *POSITION* themselves correctly on Amazon
Fire devices.
noInvitePopUp = PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, NoInvitePopUp, true) as
NoInvitePopUp;
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(noInvitePopUp);
I got it figured out. It was a duplicate Android library for another ANE
that I was using.
In case anybody reads this, I will explain briefly. When you use an ANE
from a 3rd party, they usually have support ANE libraries that have to be
included as well. People tend to just add them blindly
I have been building for Android using Flash Builder 4.7 for several years
now with no problems. I am currently using AIR 32. I can build for iOS
with no problems whatsoever, but when I try to create a release build for
Android, I get some strange errors suddenly popping up. I recently added a
I have no idea what you call the feature I want to ask about. But we have
all used a mobile feature such as in a mobile email browser where you are
scrolling through a list, and if you want to remove an item from the list,
you swipe left across the list item and it reveals a "delete" button for
Got it. So I will use the Apache Flex installer to install just Flex, and
then use this manual method to overlay AIR on top of it.
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When Harman finally takes over and starts delivering AIR, will we be able to
continue using the Apache Flex/AIR installer? I feel like because of the
licensing, the answer is likely no. If not, would someone consider
providing a document on how to do this manually??
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This sounds a little exciting to me. From my understanding, Harman has been
involved "behind the scenes" since 2006, so this gives me the impression
that the transition won't be horribly bumpy. I also like that there will be
a pricing structure to AIR, a paid product is much more likely to be
Was just reading about this on the Adobe forum, but don't think I entirely
understand what is going to happen. Is Adobe still going to do AIR
development and Harman is just going to provide support, or is Adobe handing
off AIR entirely to Harman and they take over from here?? Will AIR now
become
Sorry guys, I know that this is not a Flex-based question, but I really value
the opinions on this forum and wondered if you could give me a little advice
from your personal experiences since I just launched my business based on
AIR.
I recently started a small business and wrote three Adobe AIR
I can't be of much help because I have never used the camera on a desktop
ever. But I just wanted to add that this might be a good question to
actually ask on the Adobe Air Developement forum located here. If nobody
bites here, they might be able to help there as well:
Although this is a great site to ask any questions regarding Flex, and Flex
with respect to AIR which I do often, another good resource is the AIR forum
on Adobe, specifically the Development forum for AIR. Here is the link:
https://forums.adobe.com/community/air/development
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Thanks for the detailed information Alex. I have never written a web app in
any language, so have just a couple of concerns. One is bandwidth and
expense. My AIR app is big enough that if the app needs to be downloaded
every single time a person wants to toy around with it, it would get quite
Is Royale the same as FlexJS???
How far along are these web conversions of AS3 and MXML? Mine are business
apps, not games, so I don't need advanced 3D technologies or do any tweening
or any heavy graphics work. But my app does need things like Lists, Grids,
ArrayCollections, Images, fast AMF
I have written 3 mobile and desktop AIR apps, and to give my users as many
options as possible, I want to provide web versions as well just in case
they don't have access to their personal devices. I really don't enjoy web
programming at all, so if there is any way possible, I would love to be
On both Android and iOS, if a user buys a subscription and then tries to buy
it again, both the Google Play Store or Apple App Store will post a warning
that the user already owns the subscription.
For Amazon Fire, I am using the In-App Purchase ANE for Amazon, and because
you use the App Tester
Interesting observation kamcknig. I don't purposely set any theme in my
projects like halo or mobile because I always skin my own components, so
never really paid any attention to themes. Does anyone know what the
default theme is for a Flex 4.16.1 project?
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This is the post on Adobe where I asked the same question:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2597960
I was directed to use the AIR 32 Beta that had been updated since AIR 32 was
added to the Apache installer
https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html
It worked for me like a charm. No issues so
Yes, absolutely
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Sorry Erik, I am just now seeing this post. I had the exact same issue and
posted a question about it over on the Adobe AIR forum. Apparently, the
Apache installer uses and older AIR 32 release. When I installed AIR 32
directly from Adobe, it included the 12.1 SDK, and problem was solved.
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I'm surprised I have not heard back anything on this one yet. It is a simple
group of textInputs for a Sign Up page, I then validate the information and
write it to my database. Nothing fancy. But the data that gets written to
the database is what the user actually typed, not any of the
I pull a key and credentials from a database service that gets encrypted
through HTTPS. I then use that key to encrypt data in a local sqllite
database. I made it so I have to pull the key from the service everytime I
want the encrypted data from my local Sqllite. Just don't ever lose the key
Hi all. I have noticed that when using a textInput on iOS, if I misspell a
word and auto-correct corrects the spelling and I save myTextInput.text to a
database, the value that gets saved is the original misspelling. It is as
if the auto-corrected value, although displayed in the textInput,
So I purchased the InAppBilling ANE from Distriqt yesterday to handle my
in-app purchases on various devices, and realize I still have one small
problem - Amazon Kindle devices. Thankfully, Amazon provides their own ANE
for their App Store. So I know that I can use Platform.isIOS to test if my
app
Yeah, sadly, our business model is a subscription service at this point for
real estate investors. So individual users subscribe to our service. Apple
considers a subscription to be an in-app purchase situation. Now that they
actually KNOW that people could come to my website to sign up, they
Erik, I am hoping that you may be able to apply your sharp mind to this, but
I think I may be in an unrecoverable situation with Apple :( I just got off
the phone with App Review, and at this point, they KNOW that I am offering a
paid subscription service, so it does not seem to matter to them
Erik, thanks for all the advice and insights. I am going to move the account
information and payments to my website, but on desktops and androids, you
will be able to do it on both the website and in the app, but for iOS, it
will all be done on the website only. This is the only way I can think
Thanks for the reply guys. I really can't believe this. 10 months ago, I
contacted Apple Pay (since you can't talk to App Review until you submit an
app), and they told me that since I was a cross-platform "service", I could
choose any merchant that I wanted. Now I am being told that I cannot
I know that this is an odd place to ask this, but there are relatively few
active forums to ask about Adobe Air. Although it had passed app review
twice, I had an app rejected recently from Apple's App Store because it does
not use the in-app purchase API. My app is a real estate app that you can
I haven't tried AIR 31, but with AIR 29, I am successfully debugging on
Android and iOS with no problems using Flash Builder 4.7
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Sorry Javier, I did not mean to suggest that you cannot pass parameters in
HTTP, but the format that you suggested http://user:password@url has been
deprecated, because that was the first approach I took. Google Chrome was
the first to deprecate it. Web programming is definitely not my strong
Erik, thank you for spending the time to write me such a nice example. You
are always full of great ideas! I think with all that has been suggested to
me on this post, I should be able to find a suitable solution.
Thanks again!
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@Javier, this method of sending the username and password has been deprecated
by most modern browsers, and if not, throws up a big warning pop up.
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I appreciate the responses fellas. Olaf, sadly on mobile, even if you did
use HTTPLoader to upload an authorization header, I don't believe there is
anyway to display what is returned in a mobile WebView like StageWebView.
But I certainly appreciate the idea. The ANE that I purchased only seems
Hugo, I don't know if you wrote this library or are just reporting it, but
this is awesome news! I personally don't use .NET for AMF, I use PHP, but I
can tell you that AMF is by far the fastest way to communicate with
FLEX/AIR. Any libraries that keep this technology alive is a plus in my
I am using a RichWebView ANE by MyFlashLabs that is basically a StageWebView
with a few extra features added for a mobile AIR project. I need to be able
to inject a header into a WebView because I need to do HTTP Basic
Authentication on a mobile device. I do not want a user to have to enter a
Erik, I don't know a lot about these things, but this is one I think I would
send over to the Adobe AIR forums. They seem to have their hands more on
the mechanics of compiling and packaging than I think the guys over here at
Flex probably do.
Just a thought.
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Interesting. Just wanted to report what I found. On the inexpensive Adroid
tablet, my app would lock up if I minimized my app and came back to it.
This happened when I was installing a development version using Flash
Builder, which would also install AIR as a separate app alongside my app.
Bueller? Bueller? LOL
Nobody else has had a mobile project lock up before? I have no idea if this
matters, but it was a development build that i just quickly pushed onto my
friends inexpensive Android device from Flash Builder. It did not contain
the captive runtime, so AIR had to be installed on
Bueller? Bueller? LOL
Nobody else has had a mobile project lock up before? I have no idea if this
matters, but it was a development build that i just quickly pushed onto my
friends inexpensive Android device from Flash Builder. It did not contain
the captive runtime, so AIR had to be installed on
So I gave my app to a friend to test on their inexpensive Galaxy Tab E, a
$200 tablet. What I have found is that when you minimize my app and come
back to it later, it is often locked up and does not respond.
On my iPad and more expensive Galaxy Tab S, if you minimize the app and
browse the
Thanks for the tip Erik! I'm excited to try out this overriding the measure()
technique and see of I can squeeze me a little better layout speed than
doing it on creationComplete! I learn something new every day!
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leokan23, I don't know if this will help you, but I will tell you my process
for laying things out. I do not place and widths, heights, positions, or
paddings in my MXML. When you use percentages for these settings, AIR has
to do a lot of self-measuring, calculating, and then laying out
I am about to submit my first AIR apps to the app store this week.
Unfortunately, I never got a chance to test my app on an iPad Pro. I have
scaled all my fonts for the various screen resolutions, and all my page
layouts are calculated based on screen size and resolution, so in theory it
should
Olaf, I am very familiar with Flash and with Adobe Air and have used Flex to
develop for both. Now I mostly do Adobe Air mobile and desktop development.
But if I wanted to get back into the browser bit, I wonder how I would do it
these days. It looks like most people do HTML5, JS, and CSS.
I about lost my mind when I read this post this morning on Adobe! So
UNBELIEVABLY relieved. Thanks to everyone who went and voiced their opinion
on Adobe's forum. I think in this instance, it really helped.
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I thought I might hear back from more people here because I assumed a lot of
people here played with AIR. If you do, I really invite you to come to the
Adobe forum and voice your opinions. This post was recently made by a guy
named Flipline and it scared the socks off of me. If you have apps on
I don't know if you guys have heard, but starting with AIR 30 out in beta and
due to be released soon, Adobe has just unexpectedly dropped support for
32-bit apps. They have only made one short statement claiming it is because
MacOS is no longer going to accept 32-bit apps, but this is a horrible
Thank you Olaf. This "deep linking" was exactly what I was looking for. I
will have to read it more thoroughly, but my concern at this point is
desktop solutions. After a surface read, deep linking looks pretty well
covered on mobile devices, but our app will be written for both mobile and
I have developed a series of apps using AIR for mobile and desktop. I would
love to have a version that clients could access from a browser, but don't
want to develop from the ground up in HTML/JS/CSS. If there was a Flex
compatible version that could play in the browser, with all of the basic
H. I'm looking at Creative Cloud and I see Flash Builder listed. Check
again. If not, you can download it from the Adobe Website, just Google
Adobe Flash Builder 4.7, but be aware that it is fairly expensive at $1034
for download after taxes or $66/month on Creative Cloud for the Premium
Piotrz, thanks for the update. You may want to follow the thread that I
mentioned in my earlier post. Even though they have a patch, people are
still having trouble with the 29.0.0.122 SDK. Even though people have got
apps accepted on the app store with it, people are having trouble with
Hi piotrz. I just wanted to mention, just in case you were not aware, that
Apple has been rejecting a TON of Air apps lately because of a bug in the
AIR SDK. Chris Campbell posted that they have almost finished patching the
problem, and will be releasing AIR SDK 29.0.0.122 very soon. I don't
I will look into this and report back to you Jeffry. Thanks for the
suggestion. I wish I knew if the problem was in the dropdownlist component,
or in the skin that Flex provides. I almost think it is the skin because the
flatspark skin does not have this problem. On another forum, someone
After experimenting, I have found that the flatspark DropDownListSkin works
FAR better than the default spark skin functionally, but I can't get it to
look even remotely the way that I need. The color is wrong and can only be
set to a few defaults, the text is teeny tiny and does not respond to
On a mobile AIR app I have created, the dropdown lists that I use are crazy
sensitive, especially on iOS. When I scroll a list, 90% of the time, when I
lift my finger while scrolling, it selects whatever my finger was on when
the scrolling began. This makes it almost unuseable and very
Thanks Erik, much appreciated. Got a lot of reading to do.
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Erik, as always, I really appreciate your help. That post will be an
excellent starting point for me when I am ready to go.
I have a question regarding notifications since I have never toyed with
them. Do you only push the fact that you have something to show the user,
and then when a user
I am about to release my first three apps on the App Store. I am already
thinking about my first program modifications. I will immediately need to
provide a notification system in my app to let people know when new
properties hit the market. I have never looked into notifications on AIR
yet.
Erik, you are always so generous with your help on this site, I wish I could
give you a nugget of information. Alas, I have no experience with this even
in the slightest and can offer no help. I'm sure you already thought about
it, but the first thing that popped into my head is if the volume
No, it has more to do with this note published by Adobe. On page 3 under "iOS
SDK Upgrade", you will read that to publish an App for iOS using AIR 28, you
now need access to a Mac with Xcode installed to create an Assets.car file
that you can then use to package with your swf. This is a major pain
My concern had something to do with Assets.car I believe I read, losing
icons, and other issues when trying to release using AIR 28.
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Greg, you are the man!! Upgrading to AIR 28 did the trick and I no longer
have these annoying artifacts. And now I am aware that I should read the
release notes.
But I still have the concern as to whether I will be able to submit an .ipa
to the App Store that was compiled using AIR 28 in Flash
Greg, thanks for the heads-up on that! I will definitely look into this. I
am currently using AIR 27, so that could be a real possibility. I only have
one big concern with upgrading to AIR 28. I have read somewhere that you
can't use Flash Builder to export a final release to be deployed on iOS
... and if I remove my custom skin with the green in it, I still have the
artifacts in the same shapes and sizes, but the artifact changes to the
color of the default MobileGridHeaderSkin. So it is related, but I don't
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I have removed all of the custom components that appear in the various states
of my app so that I have only the one component remaining. I removed all of
the display objects from the remaining component besides the two buttons I
created, and I am still having the problem. I am at a total loss.
Hel!! Hahaha! I have been working on this annoying thing for two days
and have gotten nowhere!
I have a "next" button with a custom fxg button skin in the lower right
corner of my iPad app. It is inside a custom component that includes a
MobileGrid, a "previous" button and a label, and
Where do I file a bug report to Flex?
So I verified everything to make sure that it was happening for sure. On an
iPad, if I type "william" into a textInput, iOS will autocorrect it to have
a capital W and will display "William". But when I use the text property of
the textInput as a value for
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