Link to API for air.swf

Hi, I've been searching the interwebs all morning and can't seem to find a link to documentation describing the properties, methods and events I can use from the air.swf file in conjunction with using AIR via a web browser. I'm able to load the air.swf and see the framework status, but I don't know what other options I can use to perform actions via the API. If anyone knows of a link to documentation I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks!

Hi, thanks for the information but I already have the developer guide that contains this. What I'm looking for is documentation on the class specifications for the browser API. Two methods that are mentioned in the documentation I already have are getStatus() and getApplicationVersion(), but I haven't seen any other methods, properties or events documented elsewhere.
Ideally if there's something akin to the Flash help file documentation of the internal classes that would be great. Thanks for your help!

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quote:
Originally posted by:
cjm771
can't manage to figure out how the air.swf api works
The main thing you must understand about air.swf
is that its most important functionality can only be called from
within a UI event handler, such as for a button click. It's very
picky about this. You can't, for example, use the button click
event handler to begin the loading of air.swf, then in the "loaded"
callback do the air.swf API call. air.swf has to be loaded and
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startup. I even go to the extent of disabling the buttons that call
into air.swf until it's loaded.
quote:
im a bit unclear on where i get appid or developer id
The appid is your application's unique ID, which
you gave in setting up your project. Adobe recommends using
something based on your web site's domain name, in reverse order as
is done in Java and Objective C. If you're at foo.com, and call
your program Qux, then com.foo.qux is a good appid. The use of
domain-like names helps ensure that programs from different
companies don't collide with each others' namespaces.
By default, the pubid is a random number assigned by the IDE.
I forgot how you find out what number it used, just that there's a
way. Or, you can assign it yourself, in the project settings for
the AIR app. Right-click the project, go to the Run/Debug Settings
section, edit the launch configuration for your AIR app. You'll
find a Publisher ID field there. The documentation for ADL may be
helpful for picking your own pubid.
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if someone has an example app or more in-depth explantion of
incorporating the given code , i would much appreciate it.
See my code in this thread:
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The AIR.SWF in-browser API, as documented here:
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Message was edited by: dee12345654321

About on* events
They do work, but not as attribute on your HTML elements, you will need to use eventlisteners to attach them on the relevant nodes.
How: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/dom_utils/add_event_listener.html
About links
Currently in Adobe AIR, its not (easily) possible to open or execute other programs on the users PC. I have seen die hard hacker user Java to get around this limitation. But i suggest you check out the Adobe AIR forum to confirm that you cant open links in the users browser.
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[svn] 4235: Fix for - Links and type information missing for air.update. event events in @event listings

Revision: 4235
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-12-04 13:02:39 -0800 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008)
Log Message:
Fix for - Links and type information missing for air.update.event events in @event listings
Also adding support for multiple @event for a method.
QE Notes: None
Doc Notes: None
Bugs: SDK-18319
tests: checkintests
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-18319
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/asdoc/AsDocUtil.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/asdoc/ClassTable.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/asdoc/DocComment.java
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