Kindle Fire bottom bar state detection

Hi,
Is there any way to detect if Kindle Fire's bottom bar is activated (shown) or not? Or even somehow form the application manually show/hide it without directly tapping on it. I know how to control Home, Back. Menu, Search buttons, but need to cotrol or at least know bottom bars state.
Developing platform is Flash CS 5.5 - >Adobe Air 2.7 (preinstalled on Kindle Fire)
Thanks in advance.

I agree with Colin, don't worry about it, its a temporary pop up, if you are running in normal mode as opposed to full screen that bar is a permanent fixture and you can't add content past it anyway but when it pops up you just let it be, since the user is intentionally hitting the pull up window on the bottom of the screen, its much like the pull down task bar on iOS it comes in and covers your whole screen, obviously the user is trying to do something outside your app so let them. Can't imagine why you would need to account for that.
Sorry I know that post was probably useless.

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