Using AIR,HTML,Flex

I apologize I might be a little lost as I had to put a
project down to work on another one (as often happens). I though
that you would be able to launch flash/flex from html within the
AIR application, I remember having this problem in early beta and
then saying it was now fixed but for some reason it still doesn't
seem to work ,
has anyone gotten this to work , is there a special way or
tag that is needed
let give you a quick overview,
I am using the AIR application as kind of like a viewer for
other applications that are written in flex this allows me to
launch multiple applications and to give a desktop option to our
clients. however using hte iframe to view them isnt working , is it
the iframe or just the ability to use html/flash
Ray

Hi,
Flash in HTML on AIR has some limitations. The runtime cannot
display SWF or PDF content in transparent windows.
Take a look at this
thread.

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