changes in AIR sdk:

1. 1. name space changed: "http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0.M5" from and "http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0. The structure of the app.xml got changed (we know !:) )
2. stage.window changed to stage.nativeWindow
3. We can no more write to appresource directory we have to write in appstorage directory.
4. fullscreen mode :The full screen mode does not work if the application is set to transparent :( The work around is to set one transparent png as the background image for window and then make it full screen.
5. File.resolvePath changed from File.resolve
6. ....More will come...

Flex builder beta 2

Yes! flex builder beta2 got released today..with lots of new features. Get it from here. Apart from the various new features in FB3 -beta2, release notes talks about the Installing and Configuring Flex Automated Testing. Which I do not understand much. The small list of features in FB3 is:

• Native support for Adobe AIR – Flex 3 introduces new components and incorporates the Adobe AIR development tools into the SDK and Flex Builder.
• Persistent framework caching – You can make Flex 3 applications as small as 50K when leveraging the new Flash Player cache for Adobe platform components.
• Flex Builder productivity enhancements – Flex Builder 3 introduces refactoring support, new profilers for performance and memory tuning, and code generation tools for data access.
• Integration with Creative Suite 3 – The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows Flash CS3 users to build components that can be seamlessly integrated into a Flex application, while Flex Builder 3 adds new wizards for importing assets from CS3 applications as skins.
• Advanced DataGrid – The Advanced DataGrid is a new component that adds commonly requested features to the DataGrid such as support for hierarchical data, and basic pivot table functionality.
• First steps toward open source Flex. As a first step toward making Flex an open source project, we've opened up the Flex and Flex Builder bug tracking system to the public, as well as published detailed roadmap information.

The Details we can find on : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3_whatsnew.html and Flex Interface Guide(http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?navID=fig). Gotta get fast on track to keep up with new things

Air beta 2

Adobe released there Beta 2 runtime. Release notes are on labs . (here :)) . The doc says:

Support for AIR Beta 1

AIR Beta 1 will expire on December 11th 2007, so all applications that you have created for AIR Beta 1 need to be migrated to AIR Beta 2 if you want to run your applications after that date.

So do it as soon as possible. :) there are few changes.. minimised to systemtray functionality added ,initialWindow tag added in the descriptor , changed to http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.0.M4.

Details are on labs.

Ptraco on http://www.airapps.net/

Got an early information from sagar that, they (airapps.net's ppl) took our app and kept it on the site, :) is it not cool? Nobody from us ,neither me nor Sagar submitted Ptraco there, somebody from airapps.net came to sagar's blog and got the details about it , and hence published it onto the site. It seems Ptraco has got the separate media server for itself and unlimited connections to it.

All we got to do is now..to take out the time and start working on it vigorously again.

scale nine...in flash

To edit the symbol in flash with scale nine grid ,so that it can be used to skin the flex component, Just do the following :

Whil creating the symbol select the checkbox which says "Enable guides for 9-slice scaling"

The post from the guy behind scale nine in flexcoders :
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Working with rounded corners you'll want to set the left scaleGrid right after the end of the top left curve, for the right scaleGrid set it right before the top right curve starts, for the top scaleGrid set it right after the top left and top right vertical curve ends, and for the bottom scaleGrid set it before the bottom left and bottom right curves start. The artwork inside that "box" or boundaries will be the content that stretches, while everything outside of it will not. ]