AIR
Notes: AIR
Some notes I’ve gathered over time in regards to AIR. As per usual, just posted up here for future reference.
Multiple Monitors
When building an app for multiple monitors, be sure to make use of the flash.display.Screen class. This class lets you iterate through all of the monitors available with access to the size and resolution of each. It also can tell you which is the primary monitor. Below is a useful function to grab the current screen.
private function getCurrentScreen():Screen {
return Screen.getScreensForRectangle(stage.nativeWindow.bounds)[0];
}
AIRadio – An AIR Radio Player
- Compatibility: AIR 1.5 and later (ActionScript 3.0)
- File Size: About 212Kb
- Change Log
Download Now (1.3.0)
What’s New
- Signed Certificate – Got a signed certificate for the installer.
- Tweaked About window
- Updated default station ID to the new O’Rock Station
Description
AIRadio is an AIR based web radio player. It loads the play.it radio player powered by CBS Radio. After moving away from Florida I missed my favorite radio station, O’Rock 105.9. I later found that they played their music online via this Flash based player. So I built this application to host it out of the browser and minimize to the tray for easy listening.
Features
- Minimize to tray
- Self contained application
- Auto-update capability
Aroma – An AIR Recipe Manager
- Compatibility: AIR 1.5 and later (ActionScript 3.0)
- File Size: About 455Kb
- Change Log
Download Now (2.3.1)
What’s New
- Fixed word wrapping on recipes with images
- Fixed word wrapping on printed recipes
Description
Aroma – helping answer the age-old question of “What’s for dinner.” Whether you’re sharing a recipe, or looking for a quick and easy dinner idea, this is where inspiration comes to life!
Store all your favorite recipes in one spot. Aroma has many search options, allowing you to quickly and easily find the perfect recipe for any occasion. Choose from a variety of search options, to include: recipe name, ingredient, or author. Once you’ve found the perfect recipe, Aroma conveniently allows you to print.
Use Aroma to store and share your favorite recipes. Get started by clicking the Install Now link above.
Bon Appetit!
Features
- Scalable UI
- Drag-n-Drop support – Drag and drop .rcpe files to import them into your recipe list.
- Export recipes – Export recipes as .rcpe files.
- Import recipes – Import .rcpe files by dragging them into Aroma.
- Print Recipes – Can print recipes in 3×5, 4×6 or full page formats. You can select multiple recipes from the list on the left by holding down “Shift” or “Ctrl” when clicking.
- Auto-update capability
- Sortable List – Sort by name or by rating
- Searchable Recipes – Search through your recipes by name, ingredient, author, category or source. Searching by ingredient is VERY useful. When all you have are leftovers, it’s easy to see what recipes could use them.
- Recipe Images
.sparta – An AIR MXI Editor
- Compatibility: AIR 1.0 and later (ActionScript 3.0)
- File Size: About 405Kb
- Change Log
Download Now (1.0.5)
What’s New
- Updated program name – That way it will show up with it’s siblings as “Course Vector [program name]” under the “Add or Remove Software” window.
Description
.sparta is an Adobe AIR based utility. It allows you to edit .mxi files and create new ones. It currently supports the majority of the MXI specification with the goal of supporting all of it.
I made this program because I was tired of all the half-assed MXI editing programs that were built with Flash MX 2004 and some random swf to exe program. I also tended to forget what options I had when creating an MXI for my own components. So I created .sparta, it has a (hopefully) intuitive interface and shows ALL the options MXI can support.
Features
- Scalable UI
- Drag-n-Drop support
- Create MXI files
- Edit MXI files
- Auto-update capability
- Tool-Tips describing every feature
- Create mxi files for Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash
.merlin – An AIR Font Organizer
- Compatibility: AIR 1.5 and later (ActionScript 3.0)
- File Size: About 375Kb
- Change Log
Download Now (1.8.1)
What’s New
- Fixed null file extension bug
Description
.merlin is an Adobe AIR based utility. If you’re like me, and have a thousands of mis-labeled fonts scattered in endless folders, this utility is for you. I had a folder with roughly 7000 fonts, it would bring Windows to a halt just opening the folder. I also had a lot of duplicate fonts because they were all labeled incorrectly.
This utility will extract the actual font name, and rename the file based off of that. Then put that font into a folder of the first letter. So Arial would go in the “a” folder. While it’s processing fonts, it will display which font is being processed. Below the progress bar will update with the current font of the total being processed (ie. 15 of 200). If for some reason .merlin runs into any errors, it will stop processing fonts and report the specific font it had a problem with.
Some of the options you can configure for processing is to move, rename, or delete files. Each has a check box to enable or disable each.
Features
- Read OTF font files.
- Read TTF font files.
- Read Type1 (AFM, PFM, PFB, INF) font files.
- Auto-update capability