Extending Air to system Level (Idea :) )
The Air frameword does not provide wide functionality in respect of system utilities.
So we can extend the functionality of Air App to system level using any other supportive language liken , VB, .net , java, php or any othe as per the OS. we can make a socket server from any native langauge and communicate to the system using that server.
we just have to have awrapper exe which will first start the socketserver and then launch the Air App,
the air app can communicate to the server using socket soncetion and server onthe other hand can communicate to the system for any system level fucntionality.
this is just a proof of concet which even i have not yet tried.
swf version 9 decompiler is out
The Flash 9 player Swf decompiler is released from sothink
for now it supports on swf generated from cs3 and not the flex based swf may be because of the flex framework classes embede in it (just a guess)
nokia launches SoulOfTheNight for N82
know network status in Air ::
Check this a Usefull tip for Air apps connecting to web
import air.net.SocketMonitor;
import air.net.ServiceMonitor;
import flash.events.StatusEvent;
var socketMonitor:SocketMonitor;
function onInit():void
{
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.NETWORK_CHANGE, onNetworkChange);
socketMonitor = new SocketMonitor(‘192.168.2.56′,80);
socketMonitor.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS, socketStatusChange);
socketMonitor.start();
}
function onNetworkChange(e:Event):void {
trace(e+” Status change. Current status: ” );
}
function socketStatusChange(e:StatusEvent):void {
trace(“Status change. Current status: ” + socketMonitor.available);
}
:: ArrayCollection To XML ::
var images_arr = new ArrayCollection()
images_arr.addItem(new testVO(obj))
images_arr.addItem(new testVO({labelA:4,labelB:1}))
images_arr.addItem([new testVO({labelA:4,labelB:2}),new testVO({labelA:4,labelB:2})])
images_arr.addItem(new testVO({labelA:4,labelB:3}))
images_arr.addItem(new testVO({labelA:4,labelB:4}))
images_arr.addItem(new testVO({labelA:4,labelB:5}))
var str:String = “<Data name=’”+ClipsName+”‘></Data>”
var dpXml = new XML(str);
Alert.show(parse(images_arr,dpXml,false).toXMLString());
private function parse(refArrayE:ArrayCollection, str:XML,arributes:Boolean = false):XML
{
var refArray:ArrayCollection = refArrayE;
var newnode:XML = str;
var newnodeI:XML;
var i:int=0;
while (i<refArray.length)
{
var nodeName:String = String(“clip”);
if( ! ( refArray.getItemAt(i) is Array ) ){
if(arributes){
newnodeI = <slide> </slide>
for( var j:String in refArray.getItemAt(i))
{
newnodeI.@[j] = refArray.getItemAt(i).labelA;
}
newnode = newnode.appendChild(newnodeI);
}else{
newnodeI = <slide> </slide>
for( var j:String in refArray.getItemAt(i))
{
newnodeI = newnodeI.appendChild(<{j}>{refArray.getItemAt(i)[j]}</{j}>);
}
newnode = newnode.appendChild(newnodeI);
}
}else if((refArray.getItemAt(i)).length > 0)
{
newnodeI = <slide> </slide>
newnode = newnode.appendChild(newnodeI);
newnodeI = parse( new ArrayCollection((refArray.getItemAt(i)) as Array) ,newnodeI,arributes);
}
i++;
}
return newnode;
}
The Only importent thing is that the testVO to be a dyanmic class and all propeties of this should be added dyanmically
simple search Component
use ::
<component:searchComp dataProvider=”{ArrayCollection}” filterProperty=”type” width=”200″ />
This is how we can create a dyanmic filter funtion to work on different properties of object
private function filterFunc(item:Object):Boolean
{
if(String(item[filterProperty]).indexOf(searchTxt) >= 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}
Component Code ::
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Canvas xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” creationComplete=”onInit()”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
private var searchTxt:String;
public var filterProperty:String = "label";
[Bindable]
public var dataProvider:ArrayCollection;
private function onInit():void
{
dataProvider.filterFunction = filterFunc;
}
private function filterFunc(item:Object):Boolean
{
if(String(item[filterProperty]).indexOf(searchTxt) >= 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}
private function onTextChangeHandler(event:Event):void
{
searchTxt = event.target.text;
dataProvider.refresh();
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label id=”serch_lb” text=”Search” left=”2″ top=”4″/>
<mx:TextInput id=”serch_txt” text=”" right=”2″ top=”4″ left=”50″ change=”onTextChangeHandler(event)”/>
</mx:Canvas>
see here :: http://jasmeetsehgal.googlepages.com/searchCompSample.html
Download the source and rename it to rar and unzip for using it
