Archive for March 15th, 2009

Google Maps for AIR

Great news! Google announced today at MAX that the Google Maps API for Flash now supports AIR.
You can read more about it here:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/tutorial-flexbuilder.html#AIRDevelopment
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-maps-api-for-flash-air-how-did.html
In today’s session we also got a preview of some of the new 3D projection features of the Google Maps Flash API. It’s very impressive… keep an eye out for it. Great work [...]

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The Art of System Tray and Dock Icons

Damon Edwards
February 3, 2009
One of the basic aspects of an application is its tray or dock icon. A basic tray or dock icon will allow you to exit or restore the application. This is extremely important, especially for Adobe AIR applications. Since most of us Adobe AIR application creators are web programmers, [...]

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AIR API – Additional Query Techniques

David Tucker
April 18, 2008

Strongly Typing Your Results
As I mentioned in the previous article, by default SQLResult returns all of your data as weakly-typed objects. AIR has the capability to return strongly-typed values to you as well. To do this, you need to use the itemClass property of the SQLStatement class. There are [...]

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AIR API – Creating Tables and Databases

David Tucker
May 8, 2008

Creating Databases
I briefly touch on creating databases in a previous tutorial. The concept is very similar to working with a pre-populated database. Just as with a pre-populated database you will need to create an instance of the File class that points to a file. If that file does not [...]

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