Air News

First, there was an update of the AIR Runtime itself , now AIR 1.1! They say that a lot of bugs were fixed and localization of runtime appeared. Among the languages ​​supported is Russian.

Also some spice has been added for developers:

• Support for creating localizable applications, including keyboard input for two-byte languages ​​such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean
• Support localization of application name and description
• Support for localization of error messages (for example, SQLError.detailID and SQLError.detailArguments in SQLite DB)
• Added the Capabilities.languages ​​property, which allows you to determine the preferred language for the UI based on the OS settings
• Default menus and inscriptions on html buttons were localized.
• Support for changing the application’s own certificate to a certification authority certificate
• Support for tablets and 64-bit Vista windows
• Now you can find out the size of available disk space (File.spaceAvailable)
• Now you can find out whether the OS allows transparent windows (NativeWindow.supportsTransparency)

Development on Flex will require an SDK update . You will also need to change xmlns to " ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1 ".

- Secondly, the AIR Update Framework appeared , providing the following features

• Periodic check for updates at regular intervals or at the request of the user
• Downloading AIR files (updates) via the Internet
• Alert user when first running an installed application
• User confirmation of the need to check for updates
• Displaying information about the availability of a new version to a user
• Display boot process and error information

Update Framework (including documentation and templates) (ZIP, 0.92 MB)
Examples for Update Framework (ZIP, 12.8 MB)

- Thirdly, SwitchBoard appeared, allowing to connect AIR-applications with CS3 applications (and, I think, above). To communicate with CS3 applications, you will need a SwitchBoard installer . For development you need to install the SwitchBoard SDK .
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What gives SwitchBoard? It allows you to access the ExtendScript DOM of a CS3 application from an AIR application, as well as launch the desired application, such as Photoshop, for the specified file directly from AIR.