Archive: AIR
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Sep 12, 2010
No CommentsTransmission AS3 – Jar directories
Just added a small little feature to Transmission today. If you’re not familiar with Transmission, it’s an AIR 2 to Java Native Process communication layer. Instead of having to specify each jar one at a time, you can specify a directory that contains all of your Java jars. The TransmissionDemo project contained in the...
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Sep 06, 2010
8 CommentsTransmission AS3 – Remote debugging AIR and Java
Today I added a new feature to Transmission which allows for debugging the java side of your application. The step-by-step details for making it work are as follows (I will be using the TransmissionDemo project in the repo to illustrate this). 1. An optional parameter has been added to the init method of the...
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Aug 29, 2010
6 CommentsTransmission AS3 gets a logo and forum support!
Just finished making a logo for Transmission. Let me take you through my revision process. I first started with kind of a retro-ish look. Then I kind of toyed with the radio tower idea in the Transmission name for a little bit: It was OK, but I still wasn’t loving it. So I went in a different direction: Then...
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Aug 29, 2010
No CommentsTransmission AIR 2 to Java — Hide Java from Mac Dock
Often when developing an application for AIR 2.0 we realize that for whatever reason we simply can’t accomplish the task at hand without involving another language such as Java. There are several reasons why this might be the case, the fact that AIR 2.0 doesn’t work with non-storage USB devices such as a MIDI...
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Aug 23, 2010
17 CommentsTransmission – AIR 2 to Java Communication Layer
A few months ago I wrote a few posts dealing with how to create a Merapi AIR to Java production environment. If any of you have read those posts or tried doing it yourself you’d realize what a tricky and cumbersome process it is. Now with AIR 2.0, we have native process available...
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Aug 25, 2009
4 CommentsNew AIR/Java app Piano Marvel hits the AIR Marketplace!
Over the past year at Rain Interactive, I have spent all my time and energy as project manager and lead developer on the most revolutionary piano teaching software to date called Piano Marvel (not that I’m biased or anything . This unveiling also reveals the inspiration behind most of my posts over the last year. Our team’s goal was to...
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Jul 26, 2009
1 CommentYouTube Embedded Player HTML Component
A few months ago, I needed a quick way to include YouTube video content into an AIR application I was making. Initially, I looked into creating my own video player and trying to use the as3youtubelib, however I ran into people who had many issues with YouTube changing their API which lead to broken videos. I decided to...
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May 15, 2009
11 CommentsCreating a bundled AIR / Java Installer on a Mac
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post detailing how to use Merapi in a Production Environment. That tutorial was primarily written to address managing Java and AIR on a Windows Platform including creating an installer that installs both the Adobe AIR Runtime, the Java-side of an application, and the AIR-side of an application. However,...
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Dec 19, 2008
29 CommentsMerapi and AIR in a production environment
I have been using Merapi for about six months now and so far I have been very pleased. However, in the project I have been working on there were two issues that we needed to solve that were not really addressed by Merapi or other members of the community. They were: Installing Java and AIR with one...