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• Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook

• By: David Tucker; Marco Casario; Koen De Weggheleire; Koen De Weggheleire; Rich Tretola

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

• Pub. Date: November 17, 2008

• Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52250-6

• Pages in Print Edition: 448

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Thoroughly vetted by Adobe's AIR development team, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices, and topics that web developers and application designers inquire about most. The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios you may encounter using Adobe AIR to build Rich Internet Applications for the desktop. It's an ideal way to learn the nuances of Adobe AIR, with practical solutions you can use right away, and detailed explanations of why and how they work. These recipes will help you:

• Build an AIR application with Flex, Flash, or HTML and Ajax

• Create a database and connect it to your application

• Put together native menus for PCs and Macs

• Work with the Service Monitor Framework

• Utilize the Adobe AIR Update Framework

• Create branded desktop experiences with custom chrome and custom application icons

• Distribute your AIR application with the Seamless Install Badge

And more. Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook includes dozens of recipes from rising stars in the AIR development community-David Tucker, Rich Tretola, Marco Casario, and Koen De Weggheleire-along with the best solutions posted by visitors to the Adobe AIR Cookbook community website hosted by Adobe and O'Reilly (www.adobe.com/go/air_cookbook). If you're ready to expand your skill set with Adobe AIR, this is the book you've been waiting for.

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Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Foreword

Credits

Section P2.1. Author Bios

Section P2.2. Technical Editor Bios

Section P2.3. Community Contributor Bios

Preface

Section P3.1. AIR 1.5

Section P3.2. Bonus Chapter Online: Developing Mashup AIR Applications

Section P3.3. Who This Book Is For

Section P3.4. Who This Book Is Not For

Section P3.5. How This Book Is Organized

Section P3.6. Conventions Used in This Book

Section P3.7. This Book’s Example Files

Section P3.8. Using the Code Examples

Section P3.9. How to Use This Book

Section P3.10. The Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-Off

Section P3.11. O’Reilly Cookbooks

Section P3.12. Safari® Books Online

Section P3.13. How to Contact Us

Section P3.14. Acknowledgments

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1 TokenChapter 1. AIR Basics

Section 1.1. Creating and Running an AIR Application with Flex Builder 3

Section 1.2. Creating and Running an AIR Application with Flash

Section 1.3. Creating and Running an AIR Application with HTML and JavaScript

Section 1.4. Debugging an AIR Application with JavaScript

Section 1.5. Signing and Exporting an AIR Application

Section 1.6. Signing an AIR File with a Trusted Certificate

Section 1.7. Understanding Synchronous and Asynchronous Programming in AIR

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1 TokenChapter 2. Application Settings

Section 2.1. Targeting a Specific Version of AIR

Section 2.2. Setting the Application ID

Section 2.3. Setting the Application Name and Filename

Section 2.4. Setting the Application Version

Section 2.5. Editing the Application Description and Copyright Information

Section 2.6. Editing the Initial Window Settings

Section 2.7. Setting the Installation Folder for an Application

Section 2.8. Setting the Default Program Menu Folder

Section 2.9. Setting a Custom Application Icon

Section 2.10. Allowing an AIR Application to Interact with the Browser

Section 2.11. Setting the Application to Handle All Updates

Section 2.12. Determining the Application Version at Runtime

Section 2.13. Creating Multilingual AIR Installations

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1 TokenChapter 3. Application Windows

Section 3.1. Changing the Main Application Window

Section 3.2. Launching a New Window in ActionScript

Section 3.3. Launching a New Window (Flex)

Section 3.4. Launching a New Window (JavaScript)

Section 3.5. Creating Utility Windows

Section 3.6. Creating Lightweight Windows

Section 3.7. Creating a Full-Screen Window

Section 3.8. Managing Multiple Windows

Section 3.9. Creating Windows with Custom Chrome

Section 3.10. Minimizing and Maximizing a Window

Section 3.11. Resizing a Window

Section 3.12. Closing a Window

Section 3.13. Displaying a Prompt Before Closing a Window

Section 3.14. Closing All Open Windows at Once

Section 3.15. Adding a Drop Shadow to a Custom Chrome Window in ActionScript

Section 3.16. Applying a Pixel Bender Filter to a Custom Chrome Window in ActionScript

Chapter 4. Screens

Section 4.1. Positioning Windows on the Desktop

Section 4.2. Positioning Windows Across Multiple Monitors

Section 4.3. Determining the Monitors on Which an Application Is Currently Displayed

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1 TokenChapter 5. HTML Content

Section 5.1. Displaying HTML Content

Section 5.2. Accessing JavaScript from ActionScript in an HTML Container

Section 5.3. Accessing ActionScript from JavaScript in an HTML Container

Section 5.4. Scripting the DOM from ActionScript

Section 5.5. Accessing and Editing an HTML Style Sheet from ActionScript

Section 5.6. Accessing the HTML Container History List

Section 5.7. Bridging Content from Different Security Sandboxes

Section 5.8. Creating JavaScript Functions from ActionScript

Section 5.9. Scrolling HTML Content in ActionScript

Section 5.10. Using ActionScript Libraries Within an HTML Page

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1 TokenChapter 6. PDF Support

Section 6.1. Detecting Whether PDF Support Is Available

Section 6.2. Loading a PDF Document

Section 6.3. Communicating from AIR to PDF

Section 6.4. Communicating from PDF to AIR

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1 TokenChapter 7. Clipboard Support

Section 7.1. Working with the Clipboard Data Types

Section 7.2. Adding Data to the Operating System Clipboard

Section 7.3. Retrieving Data from the Operating System Clipboard

Section 7.4. Clearing Data from a Clipboard

Section 7.5. Using Deferred Rendering with Clipboard Data

Section 7.6. Creating Custom Clipboard Data Formats

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1 TokenChapter 8. Drag and Drop Support

Section 8.1. Dragging Data Out of an Application in ActionScript

Section 8.2. Dragging Data Out of an Application in JavaScript

Section 8.3. Dragging Data Into an Application in ActionScript

Section 8.4. Dragging Data Into an Application in JavaScript

Section 8.5. Dragging and Dropping Within an Application in ActionScript

Section 8.6. Dragging and Dropping Within an Application in JavaScript

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1 TokenChapter 9. File System Integration

Section 9.1. Accessing Directory Aliases in the File Class

Section 9.2. Creating a New File or Directory

Section 9.3. Deleting a File or Directory

Section 9.4. Copying a File or Directory

Section 9.5. Moving a File or Directory

Section 9.6. Moving a File or Directory to the Trash

Section 9.7. Prompting the User to Select a File or Directory

Section 9.8. Reading Data from a File

Section 9.9. Writing Data to a File

Section 9.10. Creating a Temporary File or Directory

Section 9.11. Caching Images to Disk in ActionScript

Section 9.12. Searching for Files of a Given Extension in a Directory in ActionScript

orm:winning-recipe 9.13. Migrating Serialization Changes in ActionScript

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1 TokenChapter 10. Embedded SQL Database Programming

Section 10.1. Creating a Database

Section 10.2. Connecting to a Database in Synchronous Mode

Section 10.3. Connecting to a Database in Asynchronous Mode

Section 10.4. Creating an In-Memory Database

Section 10.5. Creating an Encrypted Database

Section 10.6. Encrypting a Database with a Password

Section 10.7. Creating Tables in a Database

Section 10.8. Querying a Database Synchronously

Section 10.9. Querying a Database Asynchronously

Section 10.10. Retrieving Results from a Query

Section 10.11. Using Parameters in Queries

Section 10.12. Including a Database in an Application

Section 10.13. Persisting Application Settings

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1 TokenChapter 11. Encrypted Local Store

Section 11.1. Storing Data in the Encrypted Local Store

Section 11.2. Retrieving Data from the Encrypted Local Store

Section 11.3. Removing and Resetting Data in the Encrypted Local Store

Section 11.4. Storing Application-Specific Data in the Encrypted Local Store

Section 11.5. Safeguarding Files with Encrypted Local Store

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1 TokenChapter 12. Application and Window Native Menus

Section 12.1. Creating a Native Menu

Section 12.2. Responding to Menu Events

Section 12.3. Adding a Menu Separator

Section 12.4. Creating Nested Menus

Section 12.5. Creating a Native Window Menu (Windows)

Section 12.6. Creating a Native Window Menu (Mac)

Section 12.7. Creating a Context Menu (ActionScript)

Section 12.8. Creating a Context Menu (JavaScript)

Section 12.9. Assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to Menu Items

Section 12.10. Enabling and Disabling Menu Items

Section 12.11. Toggling Menu Items

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1 TokenChapter 13. Taskbar and Dock Integration

Section 13.1. Adding an Icon to the System Tray (Windows)

Section 13.2. Adding a Custom Menu to the System Tray Icon (Windows)

Section 13.3. Adding a Custom Menu to the Dock Icon (Mac)

Section 13.4. Changing the System Tray or Dock Icon

Section 13.5. Notifying the User Through the Dock (Mac)

Section 13.6. Notifying the User Through the Taskbar (Windows)

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1 TokenChapter 14. File Types

Section 14.1. Registering Custom File Types

Section 14.2. Determining Whether an Application Is the Default Application for a File Type

Section 14.3. Setting and Removing an Application as the Default Application for a File Type

Section 14.4. Getting the Path of the Default Application for a File Type

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1 TokenChapter 15. Service Monitor Framework

Section 15.1. Including the Service Monitor Framework in an Application (JavaScript)

Section 15.2. Including the Service Monitor Framework in an Application (Flash)

Section 15.3. Monitoring the Connection to a URL

Section 15.4. Reading Only the Head of a URL

Section 15.5. Monitoring the Connection to a Specific Port on a Server

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1 TokenChapter 16. Application Updates

Section 16.1. Creating Applications with Update Capabilities

Section 16.2. Creating Custom Update Interfaces for Applications with Update Capabilities

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1 TokenChapter 17. AIR Application Distribution with the Browser API

Section 17.1. Including the Browser API

Section 17.2. Detecting the Installed Version of AIR

Section 17.3. Launching an AIR Application from the Browser

Section 17.4. Installing an AIR Application from the Browser

Section 17.5. Using the Included Seamless Install Badge

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1 TokenChapter 18. Developing Mashup AIR Applications

Section 18.1. Consuming Flickr Web Services

Section 18.2. Consuming Yahoo Maps Web Services

Section 18.3. Consuming Twitter APIs

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