posted by Chris Black on December 21st, 2008 under ActionScript, AIR
Problem: Your AIR application needs to validate the username / password and handle failure gracefully within the application. If the user enters the wrong information you do not want them to be prompted with a windows prompt asking them to enter their Twitter username / password. If the application needs to hold on to the [...]
posted by Chris Black on November 20th, 2008 under ActionScript, AIR
TwitPic is a service that lets you share photos on Twitter by generating a tiny url to the image being uploaded. The flash.filesystem.File class allows Adobe AIR to post an image to TwitPic. By specifying the username, password and posting method it is possible to submit a query to the TwitPic API. PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: [...]
posted by Chris Black on October 20th, 2008 under ActionScript, AIR
When doing research on integrating a SQLite Database into AIR I came across the following useful resources: Learn what SQLite is About: Introduction to the SQLite Database - David Tucker Getting Started: Introduction to SQLite in Adobe AIR Tool for Creating and Modifying SQLite Databases: SQLite Firefox Extension By using a SQLite database it will [...]
posted by Chris Black on October 14th, 2008 under ActionScript, AIR
The YouTube video player is currently written in ActionScript 2.0 and integrating it into an AIR application requires a few additional steps. There are many solutions available that reverse engineer the URL to get access to the source video FLV, however, this breaks the terms of service and is not officially supported by YouTube or [...]
