Here’s a little something I’ve been working on recently – Print Screen support in AIR. It has to be AIR because only AIR allows you to access the OS clipboard, and only AIR seems to have access to the full keyboard. There’s a few things I’ve looked at and various snippets of code, so I’ll cover them in roughly the order I figured it all out…
Squiddler has done some really cool stuff on the Flash platform, most of his blog posts are worth reading but check out these ones specifically:
Bumblebee:
http://www.squidder.com/2008/11/14/bumblebee-the-easiest-path-from-excel-to-xml/
This AIR application is pretty cool – it allows you to take excel files and transform them into xml files by providing a simple template. Could be useful in those instances where we get the client to fill out a spreadsheet of information.
Real-time face recognition:
http://www.squidder.com/2009/02/26/realtime-face-detection-in-flash/
AR drum kit:
http://www.squidder.com/2009/03/03/augmented-reality-drum-kit/
Other posts at:
http://www.squidder.com/
I’ve been meaning to post about this for ages now, but I suppose it’s better late than never…
Doc? is an AIR application that centralizes all of the help documentation in Flash and Flex (and indeed other documentation, if you want) into a single application. It’s darned useful if you want to refer to the documentation without going to the online LiveDocs, or you want to check the documentation without opening Flash/Flex builder (like, if you’re using FlashDevelop). On top of all that, the search is faster and often more accurate than the standard search facility, and the application also looks pretty damn sweet.
There’s even plugins for Doc?, which add the the application search to the Flash IDE and Eclipse. – Which you can see how to install and configure from the plugins page. My only gripe with Doc? is that it has a bit of a user-interaction flaw – after you install the application, it’s useless until you install the documentation. You can learn all about how to configure it from the Doc? FAQ page, and once you’ve done that it works – but for all the cleverness of the application, it gives you no guidance about how to get started, and you have to find it out yourself.
You can download Doc? from the http://airdoc.be/, the dedicated website.
http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2009/02/adobe_air_151_released.html
Apart from bugfixes, they’ve introduced a new event – InvokeEvent.reason – you can see why your application was started (user interaction, or automatic startup on login), so you can behave accordingly.
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