Thoughts, notes and code by your's truly
One thing that I picked up at the Stockholm on AIR event was that there are more methods than just GET and POST that you can use with your URLRequests. One of them that is particularly useful in conjunction with the URLMonitor class in AIR is to use urlRequest.method = “HEAD” in the URLRequest you [... continue reading ]
I picked this one up from Lee Brimelow’s blog. It’s basically a glorified trace app, but there are times when you’re working with Flash/Flex where the output panel in the IDE isn’t available. Using this app you can check you’re traces outside the IDE. Another benefit is that it’s cross platform (hey it’s AIR), and [... continue reading ]
It was a whacked day yesterday, what with getting up at 5AM to catch a flight from Helsinki to Stockholm, listening to presentations on AIR all day and finally take the last flight back at 22:55 PM. But it was definetly worth it. The sessions were packed with usefull information (although some redundancies regarding the [... continue reading ]
Seems I’m on a roll when it comes to stage dimensions at the moment. I noticed that the stage.stageHeight property in AIR applications is dependent on wether or not a menu has been added to the application window. This is the case on the Windows side, where you have to use the NativeWindow object in [... continue reading ]
A quick note on something that I’ve stumbled upon several times myself, but somehow always end up forgetting. Perhaps writing it down once will help me remember. The stage.stageWidth or stage.stageHeight property is not the same as stage.width and stage.height (duh). When you poll e.g. stage.stageWidth, the return value always tells you how much horizontal [... continue reading ]
I’m currently working on a Adobe AIR based application that among other things requires me to load PDF files into a HTMLLoader instance. PDF loading in AIR unfortunately has some known limitations, which have been listed in the livedocs at Adobe. One of the listed items is
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for ages already, mainly with the intent to create a common space where I can collect snippets and thoughts on ActionScript and other stuff I need in my work. And if someone else can make use of the information I post here, all the better. Finally last weekend [... continue reading ]